Nov 22, 2005 - Sale 2058

Sale 2058 - Lot 65

Price Realized: $ 2,300
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,000
TWO MONTHS BEFORE HER UNTIMELY DEATH DIANA; PRINCESS. Autograph Letter Signed, "Diana," to Deeda Blair, at the time a member of the Harvard AIDS Institute Advisory Council, thanking her for her work on the sale of her dresses at auction, written on the day of the Christie's sale which raised over $3 million for various AIDS and health-related charities. 2 pages, single folded large 8vo sheet, Kensington Palace stationery. With the original envelope addressed in her hand and initialled "D." London, 25 June 1997

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"Thank you so much for all your kindness & hard work that you've done towards the sale of my dresses -- I know what you've put into this occasion & I did want you to know how greatly it's appreciated. I loved the present you sweetly left in the Carlyle Hotel for me -- what a lovely surprise . . . I am safely back in London now, but filled with many happy & special memories from a lightning visit to New York! With love & many thanks for everything . . ."