By the time A Confederacy of Dunces was published I am sure that she had forgotten about the letter and that it had never even been removed from the drawer were it was placed in 1963." It was tucked amongst a lifetime of other collected correspondence with items from the same era. "I don't even think that she knew that the letter still existed. Rickels had absolutely no concept of the monetary value of the items, and that she would not have cared about that anyway, as the real value to her lay in the memories that the items represented. The letter's current owner, a Louisiana resident and himself an avid collector of historical and political materials related to Louisiana who wishes to remain anonymous, said he believes that Dr.
It is, said Sotheby's, the first Toole letter at auction in thirty years. Patricia Rickels willed the letter to a friend, who has now consigned it to auction. Sotheby's New York is offering a letter written on Januby Toole to close friends Pat (Patricia), Rick (Milton), and Gordon Rickels. John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces is a cult classic, and its many devotees will be interested to know about a scarce letter and archive that goes under the hammer on June 15.
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