7 August 1964
4 Old Mitre Court, EC4Darling Fifi,
A thousand thanks for your sweet letter & for Heaven’s sake don’t think of bringing me back anything from Brazil, except perhaps a Diamond as big as the Ritz if you happen to find one in your back garden.
When from my eyrie beneath the Christ Corcovado I looked closely at this (unusually) typed letter from Ian Fleming I saw that it was ‘dictated in his absence’ and that it must have been sent by the devoted ‘Griffie’, model for Miss Moneypenny.
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Fionn Morgan is the daughter of Ann Fleming (née Charteris) and her first husband Shane, 3rd Lord O’Neill. She was 16 when her mother married Ian Fleming.
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