Nov 07, 2017 - Sale 2461

Sale 2461 - Lot 233

Price Realized: $ 1,170
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
TO MARLENE DIETRICH: "BE ADVISED COCATRIX THAT I WILL . . . RETURN" COCTEAU, JEAN. Autograph Letter Signed, "Jean Cocteau / [asterisk]," to Marlene Dietrich ("Marlene dear"), in French, declining to attend a gala but promising to embrace her and announcing his return on Wednesday. 1 page, 4to; folds. Np, 24 April 1962
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"I have just been ill and I'm not yet strong nor presentable enough for a gala. I will come to embrace you one evening with the real public who love you as I love you. Be advised Cocatrix that I will . . . return from the countryside next Wednesday . . . ."
Property of the family of Marlene Dietrich.