Autograph Letter Signed on his stationery. 1 pg., 8 x 12",  to American historian R. Harris Smith.

Handwritten letters by Ambler, famed British spy novelist and screenwriter, author of the 1939 classic Coffin For Dimitrios and 17 other novels, are rare.

Smith, the recipient, who had just published a history of the wartime Office of Strategic Services, was then beginning work on a biography of the legendary CIA Director, brother of Eisenhower  Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. The biography was later completed by Peter Grose, former New York Times correspondent in Moscow and editor of Foreign Affairs, and published in 1994 as Gentleman Spy.

"I must apologize for the delay in replying to your letter...I have been traveling in the Far East. I regret to say that I never met or corresponded with the late Mr. Allen Dulles.  However, I wish you well with the biography..."