TLS signed “Best always, Peter,” two pages, 8 x 10, personal letterhead, February 24, 1970. Interesting and comical letter to his friend Steve McQueen. In part, “Back at your place I was chatting up one of the Russians who remembered me from the old radio days in London, when Miranda put her foot in it, to some extent, with Henry Fonda. After talking to him for about ten minutes, she asked him what he did for a living!!! He ended the conversation courteously, but rather abruptly…and Miranda said afterwards: ‘I thought he looked vaguely familiar’! It’s alright for old bastards like me, but these 22 year olds don’t know anybody!…Hey - sorry to hear your gearbox blew up at Riverside - you must have been lapping some for that to happen; I’m sorry I missed it, not the gearbox! - I mean being there…I’m going to start work at the end of March with Goldie Hawn in a whimsical piece of nonsense entitled ‘There’s A Girl In My Soup.’ But, more important, I passed David Brown’s window only yesterday and saw an Aston Martin DBS V8 in Burnt Almond...I’m going to flog off a few cars because I’ve nowhere to garage them; also it looks like I’m going to live in the South of France for a period because of tax problems…So, to wave what’s left of the British flag, I think I’ll run the V8 and my Rolls convertible and flog off all the Italian rolling stock.” In fine condition, with expected folds, staple hole to top left and a couple small creases. R&R COA.
