GREENE GRAHAM: (1904-1991) Lot n° 1330

GREENE GRAHAM: (1904-1991) English novelist. A good correspondence collection of five T.Ls.S., Graham, each one page, 8vo, all on the printed stationery of La Residence des Fleurs, Antibes (although accompanied by the original envelopes, all of which have English postmarks from Tunbridge Wells, Kent), January 1977 to September 1983, all to Tadeusz Murek, Greene's Polish translator and close friend. Greene writes on a variety of subjects, in part, ´I am terribly sorry to read of all the disasters in your family. Do write again and tell me how you are and your poor wife and your son. I do hope that after all you won´t have to leave your Foreign Trade Enterprise because it has given you at least a lot of interesting travel. Apart from an article on Panama I have been doing very little work. Work becomes more difficult with age rather than easier´ (12th January 1977), ´ I admire your energy after being so ill in going to Japan. I don´t really envy the experience. I have only spent one day in Tokyo and I didn´t take to the place at all. I wonder if you have run into my friend Rene de Berval to whom I dedicated The Quiet American......Thank you for the article on Manila. The headline amused me but I think that Manila will wait a long time before it sees me. I did turn down an invitation only a few months ago to some kind of congress there. In spite of the writer I don´t think its my cup of tea. I had an amusing time on my second visit to Panama and went with Torrijos to Washington to watch the signing of the treaty equipped with a Panamanian passport!.....I have a new novel coming out in March which may amuse you´ (14th October 1977), ´About Switzerland I am afraid I have no knowledge of anyone there except my lawyer and my daughter and if you do happen to settle in Lausanne you must meet.....I am afraid that I am the last person to help you as far as the Americans are concerned. They regard me with the utmost suspicion!´ (9th October 1978), ´I am sorry that you found no letter on your return from Belgium. A lot of other people are complaining of no response, but I have been moving around a great deal - Panama, Nicaragua, Cuba, Spain, England......As far as I know Monsignor Quixote like my other books is in the hands of Pax and I leave it to my foreign publishers to arrange translations. Why not write to Pax? I don´t even know whether it has yet appeared in Polish´ (2nd September 1983). VG, 5