Fleming letters and the choice of Moonraker as a title...

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• The Bond Experience Newtown, PAPosts: 5,490Quartermasters

  November 2011

  Thanks for sharing! -{

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• Thunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent

  November 2011

  Great reading, B-) I've also been told that the topmost sail of an old sailing ship was called the Moonraker.

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• 00-Agent CaliforniaPosts: 453MI6 Agent

  November 2011

  The Letters of Note site has a few other Fleming related letters too. You can find them if you do a search. It is a pretty interesting site. I follow it via twitter and he posts some interesting letters.

  "A blunt instrument wielded by a Government department. Hard, ruthless, sardonic, fatalistic. He likes gambling, golf, fast motor cars. All his movements are relaxed and economical". Ian Fleming
• Bleuville Posts: 384MI6 Agent

  November 2011

  ke02eww wrote:

  One thing I regret not attempting to collect more vigorously is the letters and correspondence of Fleming and others related to the Bond franchise.
  
  I have a few, packed away, and this find might inspire me to dig them out.
  
  I spotted this when reading the sites comments about the new B23 omega (sorry even the spell nazi on my iPad changes skyfall to sickjoke so I'll type B23 and everyone's happy ).
  
  http://jamesbondwatchesblog.com/2011/11/omega-is-back-with-james-bond-watches-for-skyfall-bond-23/#more-3347
  
  It links  to this,
  
  http://hmssweblog.wordpress.com/2011/11/01/ian-fleming-names-names/#entry
  Which takes you to this...
  http://www.lettersofnote.com/2011/10/infernal-machine.html
  
  Which shows a letter from IF to his publishers discussing the next title after LALD..... 
  
  And the evolution of the Moonraker final choice...
  
  There are many theories as to why Moonraker was chosen as the name of Drax's  project - a missile defense of Britain - but my own favorite relates to Flemings knowledge of an old Wiltshire legend, that of the moonrakers ..
  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonrakers
  
  This act of deception will have no doubt amused Fleming, and seems to me to fit the plot.
  
  Enjoy...

  
  There is a Moonrakers public house in Devizes, Wiltshire just as you go south east from the centre of town.
  It is at 29 Nursteed Road, Devizes. SN10 3AJ.
  Related to raking ponds-not the Bond film!
  
  Bleuville.