Planning on becoming a famous writer?? Best keep track of your letters

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Six of Harper Lee’s letters, written to a friend between 1956 and 1961, are being auctioned by Christie’s on Friday, June 12, apparently without objection from the famously private elderly writer. They are expected to be sold for at least $250,000.

All such auctions do not proceed without objection. One of the more interesting legal tussles of the day concerns the “lost” letter Neal Cassady wrote to Jack Kerouac back in 1950. It was scheduled to be auctioned in