Outstanding ALS signed “Kate,” one page, 5 x 8, personal letterhead, June 16 [1967]. Hepburn, “still staying at Spence’s,” writes to Armina. In full: “You are right—I said to myself even one second after it happened—It is best—My brain knows it—no anticipation—no struggle—just end—It was instantaneous—and I know that it is a best way to die—But the finality is appalling I am sure you know—you just cannot believe it—Here—gone—It is so sad—All the years—All the shared struggles—And I know that you are right too that time can’t heal it just forces you to change your own path—Well—not much to say—I was lucky to know him & you were sweet to write such a dear letter.” Tracy died six days earlier, on June 10. Hepburn would later recount in her memoir that, after hearing the crash of a dropped teacup, she found Tracy on the kitchen floor, where he had succumbed to a heart attack. Faint wrinkling, otherwise fine, clean condition. While knowledgeable collectors are well acquainted with the typed, tersely worded refusals that Hepburn routinely sent out in her last decades, handwritten letters relating to this most important of her personal relationships take a place among the rarest and most coveted examples of Hepburn autograph material. PSA/DNA Auction LOA and R&R COA.
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