Lot 30
Lot 30
"Can't you come sooner?"

Hydra, 21 March 1963

Price Realised USD 11,875
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USD 2,500 - USD 3,500
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"Can't you come sooner?"

Hydra, 21 March 1963

Price Realised USD 11,875
Price Realised USD 11,875
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Autograph letter signed (“Leonard”) to Marianne Ihlen ("My darling Marianne"), Hydra, 21 March 1963.

One page, 286 x 212mm; with transmittal envelope (torn).

Keen for a reunion with his "darling," Cohen’s writes from his terrace in Hydra. He fills Marianne in on “a marvelous woman” he has hired to cook and clean. Named Kivia, she is “waiting for you to tell her what to do.” He closes: “I miss you so much. Can’t you come sooner? All my love, Leonard.”



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By descent from Marianne Ihlen.
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