ALS signed “G. G.,” one page both sides, 8.5 x 11, postmarked October 24, 1941. Letter to her friend and confidant Robert Reud, in part: "Only a few lines about nothing. Thank you for wires. You said I would buy a house is that really so! I thought a house would fly to me, but no house can also see in the stars if I should buy real estate so called paying real estate. I have one offered to me but god knows what to do. Maybe if you looked closely at your planets that they could tell! Everything is so uncertain one becomes afraid of everything. Do you know if I am coming to N. Y. I have sort of vaguely thought of it. But I don't know. If I do, have you a place to live in, for a 'star.' But I may go somewhere else first, and then N. Y. later. If you cannot tell where I am going, I will just have to leave it to the Lord. Whenever it is I shall always be glad to see you again. Besides all that is there going to be peace? I am sure you have not said your prayers, so you must start now. But we will talk that over when I see you. Bless you and please don't forget me." Garbo adds to the top of the first page: "Don't mind the spelling, I have no dictionary with me." In fine condition. Accompanied by the original mailing envelope, addressed in Garbo's own hand.
In 1927, following the release of Flesh and the Devil, MGM producer Irving Thalberg decided that Garbo's next film venture would be the gold-digger melodrama Women Love Diamonds. Garbo immediately refused, much to the ire of studio head Louis B. Mayer, who threatened to have her deported unless she adhere to studio demands. When the press caught wind of the story, Garbo received an outpouring of support letters from around the world, with one fan in particular, Robert Reud, even offering to marry her to save her from deportation. His kind words of encouragement sparked a friendship that would last for many years. Garbo relied on him to aid in many of her business decisions—she may have consulted Reud concerning her abrupt retirement from film in 1941 (the year of this letter), or about the real estate transactions she mentions here. Right after she retired, she began buying real estate and at one time she owned much of what is now Rodeo Drive.
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