[Geoffrey Jenkins, South African journalist and novelist, friend of Ian Fleming and author of an unpublished James Bond novel.] Typed Letter Signed to the autograph hunter Eileen Cond, regarding his next novel ‘A Grue of Ice’.

Jenkins’s Bond book ‘Per Fine Ounce’, which he claimed was based on a diamond-smuggling storyline he had developed with Fleming in 1957, was rejected by Fleming’s production company Glidrose in 1966. The recipient Eileen Margaret Cond (1911-1984) of Honiton was an enthusiastic collector of autographs, with the ability of drawing a more than perfunctory response from her targets. 1p, 12mo. In good condition, lightly aged. Folded for postage. Signed 'Geoffrey Jenkins'. He explains that the ‘inordinate’ delay in replying to her letter is due to having been ‘up to the ears in finishing my new book, which is entitled A GRUE OF ICE and is to be published in Britain and America in the autumn’. The book is ‘now done’ and the manuscript is with his publishers. ‘On the strength of the synopsis alone I was given the most handsome contracts on both sides of the Atlantic and everyone is predicting that it will be a very big success. The story centres round Bouvet Island, a remote island 1600 miles south of Cape Town, the only land between the Cape and the Antarctic.’ 1p, 12mo. In good condition, lightly aged. He explains that the ‘inordinate’ delay in replying to her letter is due to having been ‘up to the ears in finishing my new book, which is entitled A GRUE OF ICE and is to be published in Britain and America in the autumn’. The book is ‘now done’ and the manuscript is with his publishers. ‘On the strength of the synopsis alone I was given the most handsome contracts on both sides of the Atlantic and everyone is predicting that it will be a very big success. The story centres round Bouvet Island, a remote island 1600 miles south of Cape Town, the only land between the Cape and the Antarctic.’