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A group of Maureen O'Hara photographs signed to Charles Blair, with related correspondence

29 November 2016, 12:00 EST
New York

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A group of Maureen O'Hara photographs signed to Charles Blair, with related correspondence

Comprising 3 size 8 x 10 in black and white portrait photographs of O'Hara, 2 signed and inscribed, "Dear Charlie / I love you / Maureen," and "To my Poor Charlie / 'The Zombie' / Love, Maureen," housed in a black leatherette foldout picture frame with clear inner windows and silk lining, stamped "CB" in gilt to front cover, 2 black and white portrait photographs of O'Hara, 2 smaller color candid snapshots of O'Hara and Blair, with an autograph letter from Charles Blair, first 2 pp only, legal folio, January 1, 1970, "in Drake's Passage / en route to St. Thomas," and 8 pp of autograph notes on 4 leaves, 8vo, in blue ink. This display includes a surprisingly intimate letter to O'Hara from her aviator husband, Charles Blair. Blair writes (in part), "Would like to honeymoon with you / again in 1970, all year. I'll be your / husband in the daytime. After sundown / I want to be your lover (although that / doesn't mean I'm going to behave in the / daytime)." The notes in this lot are likely in O'Hara's hand.
Frame: overall: 12 x 30 in; folded: 10 x 12 in; smaller photographs: (each) approximately 3 ½ x 5 in

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