James Gunn - Secret Agent. Unpublished Fleming correspondence online
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Hello. Here's a random discovery I made on Wednesday: unpublished letters from Ian Fleming in 1956 about the 'James Gunn - Secret Agent' TV series have been viewable online since 2015 at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum as part of the Morgenthau family's papers. Could it be that Fleming's 9-page outline and 28-page script are there too? I discuss this with the archive's exact reference numbers so you can read them here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/close-reading/id1537447331
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Oohh, very interesting…I’ll be giving this a listen 👏🏻
Now on my website, Looking for James Gunn:
https://www.jeremy-duns.com/blog/lookingforjamesgunn
Thank you for the link 🙂
No doubt this will be essential reading.
May I just say it's great to see @spynovelfan back on AJB after all of these years. This is the sort of stuff I live for as a Bond fan. Will give it all a listen and read and report back with my thoughts.
I found the material. I've just published part 1, which looks at the background and Morgenthau correspondence. Part 2 goes up tomorrow, and will include a detailed description of this unpublished material by Ian Fleming. https://www.jeremy-duns.com/blog/jamesgunnpart1
This is wonderful, many thanks for this fascinating look into one of the least known corners of Fleming's work.
Here it is. Part 2 of 'The name is Gunn. James Gunn.' This features a detailed look at unpublished Ian Fleming material from nearly 70 years ago. https://www.jeremy-duns.com/blog/jamesgunnpart2
You should write for a magazine. Excellent work.
He's done far more than that, Xando.
Thank you for that unmissable piece, @spynovelfan. I've been wanting to know more about this subject for decades.
And a massive ’thank you’ for sharing this here from me 😁 this is unmissable reading 🍸
Fascinating stuff--both more and less like the novel of Doctor No than expected. Thanks as always to Jeremy for his superlative detective work.
This is fascinating reading @spynovelfan thank you for posting.
I’ve also noticed that you are author Jeremy Duns, I sold some of your novels during the last years of my trading in secondhand books, though I didn’t read any I am certainly going to get hold of some now!
Thanks for the kind comments. I also spoke to The 007 Files podcast about the James Gunn correspondence - but just before I had received the script material itself - as well as about previous Bond-related discoveries I've made in archives, such as Ben Hecht and Joseph Heller's script material for Casino Royale and Anthony Burgess's treatment for The Spy Who Loved Me. You can listen on most podcast-hosting apps, including Spotify, or directly online: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/s2e009-from-casino-royale-to-james-gunn-jeremy-duns/id1772641448?i=1000707839098
This one will go on my podcast list 🍸