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MARILYN MONROE LETTER AT SOTHEBYS

NEW YORK CITY -- On December 15, a five-page letter written by 16-year-old

Norma Jean Baker, later Marilyn Monroe, in which she talks about her

excitement at the chance of meeting her father for the first time, sold for

$43,125 at Sotheby's to an anonymous collector on the telephone.

The letter, dated February 16, 1943, was written to Grace McKeen Goddard,

Marilyn's legal guardian and friend, and had been estimated at $20/30,000.

An original typescript of the children's Christmas story, How the Grinch Stole

Christmas, by Dr Seuss, sold within estimate for $17,250 to James Cummins, a

New York book dealer, who described Dr Seuss as "one of the greatest

children's artists in the world" and the manuscript as "unique." The

seven-page manuscript was decorated with drawings of the Grinch.

A set of eight telegrams sent from the Carpathia by Bruce Ismay, managing

director of the Titanic, giving details of the disaster, sold for $68,500.