Detective novelist best known for The Big Sleep and The Long Goodbye. His seven novels center around tough but honest private investigator Philip Marlowe. TLS, one page, 8.5 x 11, personal letterhead, February 19, 1951. A letter to Mr. Roberts, Secretary General of The Society of Authors. Content regards Swedish and French publishers and translations of his works as well as to matters relating to the Society of Authors. In part: 'I am a little puzzled by the information that theSociety of Authors maintains a Representatives Department, and thus puts itself in competition with the agencies and also to some extent modified its relations with its members...Reading between the lines, would it be permissible for me to infer that your 'uneasiness' about Heath's is financial, or is it merely an impression that their operations lack finesse? Yours very truly, Raymond Chandler.' Faded paper clip impression to the upper left corner, as well as some wrinkling in the same area, otherwise condition is fine. COA John Reznikoff/University Archives and RRAuction COA.
