Two of the letters from Ann are written on the back of a gin rummy card and a hospital temperature chart. The letters consist of more than 500 typed and handwritten pages, at least three written on endpapers torn from books. On the heels of a telegram he came hustling and twittering along with his tiny face crushed under a Russian Commissars’ uniform hat he had just arrived from Moscow.”
“Can you imagine a more incongruous playmate for me. “Truman Capote has come to stay,” Fleming writes. The artist Lucian Freud, for example, and the Labour leader Hugh Gaitskell, with whom she had a long affair. “They are an extraordinary read because Ian Fleming is pretty much incapable of writing a dull sentence.”įleming wrote all of the Bond novels at GoldenEye, his house in Jamaica, a place visited by many of Ann’s remarkable circle of friends. “They are quite something, it has been a real treat,” he said. Heaton said the letters were packed with stories of high society, travel, love of nature and gossip. I can only send you my arms and my love and all my prayers.”įleming had numerous flings and affairs with other women and when the couple finally married in 1952 that was never likely to stop.Īnn once wrote to him: “You mention ‘bad old bachelor days’ – the only person you stopped sleeping with when they ceased was me!”Ī letter from Fleming written on British Overseas Airways Corporation stationery reads: “In the present twilight, we are hurting each other to an extent that makes life hardly bearable.” After all this travail and pain it is bitter. In one letter he writes: “I have nothing to say to comfort you. The collection includes a number of sad and gentle letters written by Fleming on Gleneagles stationery shortly after he played golf with Rothermere, the cuckolded husband. In 1948 Ann became pregnant with Fleming’s child, a girl who was a month premature and lived only eight hours. “I long for you even if you whip me because I love being hurt by you and kissed afterwards,” Ann once wrote to Fleming. During both marriages she and Fleming were lovers, an intense relationship that had sado-masochistic elements.
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