'Dear Baby': DiMaggio's love letter to Monroe sells for $78,000

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A beautifully written letter beginning 'Dear Baby, that Joe DiMaggio wrote to Marilyn Monroe, has sold for $78,125 at a Beverly Hills auction. Sadly, the letter was begging her not to divorce him, and expresses concern that Monroe looked as though she was on the point of collapse.

The letter went to an undisclosed buyer and was among 300 items in "Marilyn Monroe's Lost Archives," sold at Julian's Auctions in Beverely hills. They included a letter to her third and final husband, playwright Arthur Miller, her favorite black coat, a bra and an empty tablet bottle.

'Monroe, who died of a drug overdose at age 36 in 1962, willed the collection of letters to her mentor, the legendary acting coach Lee Strasberg.'

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/ae36...5/marilyn-monroes-lost-love-letters-sold-121k

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ion-dedicated-selling-300-personal-items.html
 

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