Auction Date:2012 May 16 @ 18:00 (UTC-5 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
A collection of 14 letters consisting of four ALSs and ten TLSs, all one page on her personal 6 x 8 stationery, with most of the letters dated and ranging from between 1981 to 1996, Nine of the letters are signed “Katharine,” two signed “Kate,” one signed “Kate Hep—,” one signed “K. Hepburn,” and one signed with just a sentiment. All but one of the letters are written to wardrobe mistress Violet ‘Vi’ Murray, whose credits include The African Queen and The Lion In Winter, with the final letter written to Murray’s son Colin, after her passing. One TLS, dated November 11, 1981 reads, in part: “I’m in a play –The West Side Waltz–opening in New York November 19th. Just opening a movie–On Golden Pond.” Another TLS written on November 16, 1982 reads, in part: “The papers are silly. It was an operation on my shoulder to right arm. Too much heavy work–all fine now.” A November 20, 1984 ALS reads, in part: “It’s nice to have a word now & then–You make me laugh when you say the topic of the movie interests you. I know what you mean.” At the conclusion of a 1983 TLS, Hepburn adds in her hand, “Just finishing a movie called The Ultimate Solution of Grace Quigley. With Nick Nolte.” Also included is a 1996 TLS from Hepburn’s assistant, Sharon Powers, to Colin Murray. Nine of the letters are accompanied by their original mailing envelopes, including one addressed by Hepburn. In fine overall condition, with some scattered light creasing and toning. Murray was a longtime wardrobe mistress who worked on over 20 films during the 1950s and 1960s, and obviously kept a special personal relationship with Hepburn years later.
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