GREENE GRAHAM: (1904-1991) ' have had a happy but exhausting two weeks of travelling in Russia. This you won't ...

GREENE GRAHAM: (1904-1991) ' have had a happy but exhausting two weeks of travelling in Russia. This you won't approve of'
GREENE GRAHAM: (1904-1991) English novelist. A good correspondence collection of six T.Ls.S., Graham (and one signed in full), each one page, 8vo, all on the printed stationery of La Residence des Fleurs, Antibes (although accompanied by five original envelopes, most of which have English postmarks from Tonbridge, Kent), March 1985 to November 1988, all to Tadeusz Murek, Greene's Polish translator and close friend. Greene writes on a variety of subjects, in part, 'How amusing about that number of Paris Match. I wish you would send me a photocopy. I knew Mauriac very well, Julian Green rather less well and I have little or no memory of Schlumerger. I can't remember the occasion of the photo but it was probably in the early 50's. I don't remember ever meeting Julian Green in his home. I am surprised that you never received a copy of The General, but I am asking my sister to have one sent to you at once and also a copy of The Tenth Man which contains a good many errors so that I would rather you read it in a corrected edition' (28th March 1985), 'Many thanks for your letter which I am only replying to now because I have been away in Spain for the shooting of Monsignor Quixote. Many thanks for the cuttings and for the information about Punch. I wont be able to listen to that thank God.....La Dottoressa was more or less written by myself although I pretended only to have written the Preface. Ronald Matthews was a friend of mine now dead and his book was very bad, and I made it a condition of talking to him that it should not be published in England. It was more or less an act of charity as he was short of money' (3rd May 1985), 'I wasn't at all offended by your letter, but having just come back from Panama and Nicaragua I was faced with more than 70 letters to answer and I thought yours perhaps didn't need a reply. Now I am off again for I hope two quiet weeks in the Caribbean.....Of course you can use that interview in Poland' (8th January 1986), 'I am afraid that I have been rather dilatory over your plans. I didn't realise that it was a book you were proposing. I was exhausted by the dialogue with Mlle. Allain which went on over several years and I don't fancy doing the same job again. You can't imagine how exhausting the answering of questions can be......A few questions I could face but not a whole book of them.......I have had a happy but exhausting two weeks of travelling in Russia. This you won't approve of' (28th October 1986), 'I am sorry to disappoint you but your list of questions are completely impossible to answer even to myself. Any contribution I made would be silly and superficial' (22nd November 1988). The sixth letter is a testimonial letter for Murek addressed to la Confederation Suisse and stating, in part, 'I have known Mr Tadeusz Murek since 1948 when he became my translator in Poland. I met him first in 1955 in Katowice and since then we have met frequently and become close friends. I would heartily recommend the Conseil d'Etat to grant him permission to spend another year or more in Switzerland where he is studying French language and literature. This is essential for him in his work as a very able translator of literature......' (March 1985). Also including a T.L.S. by Elizabeth Dennys, Greene's sister and secretary, and three retained carbon typed copies of Murek's letters to Greene. VG to EX, 10