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Lot 377
Sale 568 - Fine Books and Manuscripts
May 1, 2018
9:59AM
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$1,000 -
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$1,250
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HUGHES, Howard R. (1905-1976). Autograph letter signed ("Howard"), to his second wife Jean Peters. N.p., n.d. [c.1965].
1 page, folio, on lined yellow legal paper. Hughes asks his wife if she "would like to come at the end of Cinema IX I[f] you are sleepy, I will go after you go to bed. I love you so very much." Peters replies on the lower third of the sheet: "I guess you know me pretty well. I am watching IX. I'll come in when it's over. J." Some other unrelated notes in her hand at bottom concerning a family matter, with note up side margin in Hughes's hand "Boats this big are Hell to sell."

