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Six Personal Letters by Harper Lee to Be Auctioned at Christie’s

On Dec. 12, 1960, Harper Lee sat down at her typewriter and wrote an exuberant letter to her close friend, the New York architect Harold Caufield, expressing her shock and delight at a glowing review of her debut novel.

“We were surprised, stunned & dazed by the Princeton Review,” she wrote. “I haven’t recovered my voice on the subject enough to say anything.”

It was a striking contrast to another, more morose letter she had written to him, in which she complained of being unable to write.

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