Lot #779

Audrey Hepburn Typed Letter Signed While Filming Breakfast at Tiffany's

Description

"Am working very hard and naturally have to get to bed very early as I am up at five-thirty nearly every morning"–Hepburn writes to an old friend in Holland while filming her iconic role as Holly Golightly

TLS signed “Audrey,” one page, 5.75 x 8.25, personal letterhead, October 31, 1960. Letter to Hepburn's old friend Nan Boissevain-Fisk, in full: "I am a shocker for not writing you sooner especially as I was so happy with your lovely gifts for Sean. But you know what it is to arrive and settle in a complete household and start a new movie plus going on location at the same time.

Thank you, dear girl, so very very much. We are back at the same house we had once before which Papa Harry knows quite well as he visited me here regularly after I had broken my back. It is lovely coming back to familiar surroundings as it seems a little more like home. I am longing to see you and Baby Harry and naturally longing to show you Sean.

Am working very hard and naturally have to get to bed very early as I am up at five-thirty nearly every morning. Weekends are spent mostly at home and Saturday is my day with the baby which I enjoy tremendously and it is nurse's day off. I enclose a telephone number – do give us a call if and when you have time and perhaps we can arrange a time for the boys to meet." In very good to fine condition, with overall creasing and a few small stains.

Accompanied by two printed images of Boissevain-Fisk and Hepburn dancing for family members, two photographs of individual sketches featuring Boissevain-Fisk and Hepburn, two ALSs from Hepburn’s son, Sean Hepburn Ferrer, a copy of an introductory letter that Boissevain-Fisk wrote for an ‘Audrey & Friends’ catalog that describes their friendship, and a letter from the Audrey Hepburn Children’s Fund thanking Boissevain-Fisk for supplying the introduction.

Auction Info

• Auction Title: Fine Autograph and Artifacts
• Dates: September 28, 2024 - October 16, 2024

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