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1938 · Best.-Nr. 17714 — FILE OF LETTERS being some nearly 60 in number between science writer and German Rocket Society founder Willy Ley and esteemed international film director Fritz Lang between the years 1938 & 1952. A wonderful correspondence with all letters from Ley SIGNED full of deep personal feelings intimate revealing thoughts and mentioning in detail or in passing FRAU IN MOND Science Fiction Pulp Magazines a history of the meeting of the 2 men in the form of a letter by Lang to the Dept. of Justice Immigration Service on Ley's behalf H.P. Lovecraft David Selznick Joseph Cotten Ingrid Bergman being Lang's alibi for canceling a trip to N.Y.C. for the chance of working with her Arthur Murray WWII Hitler Goebbels Truman Bemelmans E. E. Smith the Atomic Bomb John Campbell the film SCARLET STREET and subsequent censorship in New York and the cuts that had to be made to reinstate it Arkham country Providence R.I. August Derleth Chesley Bonestell John Hersey Robert Oppenheimer Robert Heinlein DESTINATION MOON 20th Century Fox MGM Gary Cooper and the film CLOAK AND DAGGER Wernher Von Braun Forrest Ackerman L. Sprague De Camp CLASH BY NIGHT WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE Robert Goddard Dianetics and L. Ron Hubbard etc. An incredible archive. N.p. unknown