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HELEN MacINNES - AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED 01/11/1975 - HFSID 185884

Signed, 2-page autograph letter (1975), offering advice for an aspiring journalist Autograph Letter signed: "Helen MacInnes", 2 pages (front and verso), 5¾x7¾. New York, N.Y., 1975 January 11. On personal letterhead to "Dear Mrs.…"

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HELEN MacINNES
Signed, 2-page autograph letter (1975), offering advice for an aspiring journalist
Autograph Letter signed: "Helen MacInnes", 2 pages (front and verso), 5¾x7¾. New York, N.Y., 1975 January 11. On personal letterhead to "Dear Mrs. Fischer", in full: "Please excuse this brevity. I am at work on a new novel & have a heavily loaded day, what with housekeeping etc. .... [Ellipses in original.] I was delighted to have your comments & send my best wishes (with photograph) to your son, Roland. [Item not included.] I honestly wouldn't know what exact advice to give in journalism: except that, whatever the field (politics, ecology, international affairs, etc., etc.) there should be a good deal of background reading in the particular subjects. Add to that, fluency in writing, with an understanding of the English language. (And don't smile - grammar and spelling as well as an interest in word meanings!!) All the best, Sincerely". Helen MacInnes (1907-1985) began writing her best-selling espionage novels just as World War II commenced (Above Suspicion, 1939), and she continued through most of the Cold War. Her last novel, Ride a Pale Horse, appeared in 1984. Above Suspicion and 3 other MacInnes novels (Assignment in Brittany, The Salzburg Connection and The Venetian Affair, were made into films. The Scottish-born MacInnes and her husband Gilbert Highet, a classics professor who worked in British intelligence during World War II, became American citizens in 1951. The novel MacInnes was writing when she signed this letter was Agent in Place, published in 1976. One horizontal mailing fold. Fine condition.

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