Roald Dahl Authentic Handwritten Letter Re: Patricia Neal to Valentino & Carter

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This is a wonderful hand-written letter from
Roald Dahl
, about his wife
Patricia Neal
, written to their two dear friends, silent movie actress
Jean Valentino
(first wife of
Rudolph
) and former Ziegfeld Follies
Chloe Carter
(ex-wife of composer
Harry Ruby
) with whom she shared a house - a duplex on Fox Hills Drive in Los Angeles - during the making of
The Fountainhead
with
Gary Cooper.
Miss Neal  and Mr. Cooper (who was married), famously had a romance that resulted in an unplanned pregnancy. Carter and Valentino helped her through the crisis and they became close life-long friends. When Mrs. V died, her estate passed to Chloe and when Chloe passed her estate passed to my father in law.
The details of this period in her life are laid out in her autobiography
As I Am
, as well as in a new book,
An Unquiet Life,
by
Stephen Michael Shearer.
It has been made into a movie and is about to be released.  We were able to help him with his research and we were were able
to return many things, including letters from Gary Cooper to Miss Neal before she passed away in 2010.
Here is a transcript of what Roald wrote in the Air Letter/Aerogramme, postmarked Great Missenden, April 9, 1962:
"Dear Chloe & Jean
Here is a quick acknowledgement of your nice letter with the birthday card and the six dollars for the children. Awfully kind of you.
Pat is in N-Y doing a Westinghouse TV and will be back here in 10 days when she will (I hope!) get around to writing you.
We are all pretty well here, including Theo, and all are looking forward madly to the coming of spring - which is late this year.  That one begins to think that perhaps it has gone some where else instead.
Thank you again and Lots of love from Roald.
I hope you agree that this letter is a treasure in need of a good home.
A note to the successful bidder: if you would like, I will include an autographed copy of An Unquiet Life with this letter.