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Liberace (1919 – 1985)
‘I consider you a great friend but please don’t spoil it by demanding more of me than I am capable of giving’
A very rare and revealing autograph letter signed by Liberace, ‘Lee’, four pages on two sheets, 8.5″ x 11″, January 2nd 1962. A lengthy handwritten letter the famously complicated pianist, in purple ink, and addressed to his talent club president, Max Ducray.
In part: ‘First of all, Happy New Year! Yours is the first letter I am writing this year and probably the last, as I don’t write letters. It has a way of getting beyond me — one necessitates another and I really find in most cases I lose friends by beginning correspondence and not continuing it than by not writing at all. It seems I have so little free and private time for myself that it is almost impossible for me to correspond with all the people I’d like to. I’m content to run into them and see them during my travels, and since I have practiced this for years even my family realizes this and know that I prefer seeing them and calling them on the phone (or calling me) to writing. George writes me all the time but I have never been a letter writer. So please try to understand that I just don’t write to anyone not even my family — they know this and love me as do my true friends and they don’t need reassurance of my love in letter form… I consider you a great friend but please don’t spoil it by demanding more of me than I am capable of giving—and that includes writing letters.’
In fine condition. Accompanied by the original mailing envelope, the reverse flap of which has been addressed by Liberace in his own hand. Letters of Liberace are rarely offered.