If the adage “ write what you get it on ” truly applies , then James Bond source Ian Fleming took it to heart . Like 007 , his famously womanize character who later went on to star in a enormously successful film franchise , Fleming was apparently prone to find himself in choppy kinship waters , harmonise to a aggregation of private letter coming up for auction .
Sotheby ’s isofferinga collection of 160 piece of correspondence belonging to Fleming , include a serial of exchanges between the author and his married woman , Ann , that detail his infidelity .
“ You mention ‘ bad old bachelor days’—the only soul you stopped sleep with when they ceased was me ! ” Ann wrote , patently cite Fleming ’s indiscretions . Other letter seem tohintat a more unchanging , if lurid , pairing , with Fleming affectionately referring to her as “ darling baby ” and opening his subject matter by addressing her as “ Dear Monkey ” or “ Darling Pig . ”
Before they married , Ann utter hope Sir Alexander Fleming would arrive to take her aside from her then - husband , Esmond , Viscount Rothermere , and “ put me in your bed with a bare-assed cowhide whip in my hand so as I can keep you well bear for 40 years . ” distinctly , that plan did n’t bring home the bacon .
Fleming and Ann were married in 1952 and remained together until his destruction in 1964 . The varsity letter were often exchanged while the writer was on retreat at Goldeneye , Jamaica , where he write many of his bail bond novel . The letter also frequently cite his work and some of Bond ’s origins . In one , he explains work is going so well he ’s completing a chapter a Clarence Day . line a boat given to him by a friend , he wrote that “ I have christened [ it]Octopussy . ”
The salacious letters will be auctioned from December 3 to 10 and are expected to bring between about $ 260,000 and $ 400,000 .
[ h / tThe Telegraph ]
