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CHANDLER, Raymond (1888–1959). Typed letter to his agents H.N. Swanson and Edgar Carter, discussing homosexuality and his respite to England, 16 November 1955. 2 pages, 8vo (229 x 180 mm), on personal letterhead, unidentified initials on page one, staple punctures to upper corner with few pale stains. Correspondence between Chandler and his agents discussing his arrangements on traveling to England for a film job that the author is feeling very anxious as “conditions there are not so oppressive” … “I want to get at home in the country (not countryside) so that I can do a book with Marlowe in London. There are some pretty rough characters over there now, among them the cops too, and a lot of crime.” Chandler goes on to make a personal note regarding the British police: “I don’t know why it is, considering my age and decrepitude, but they simply can’t keep their hands off of me”. He concludes with the observation of noting six homosexual magazines on a newsstand in Greenwich Village: “They don’t go that far in London. After all, chaps, what’s the use? Why try to win the bloody match if the bloody referee just keeps his bloody bleddin’ whistle going at our side?”