Letters from Harper Lee to friend sell for $12 500
Harper Lee
BIRMINGHAM  Ala. (AP) — A batch of letters handwritten by "To Kill a Mockingbird" author  Harper Lee  to a friend has sold for more than $12 000.
"On this Inauguration Day I count my blessings ... I'm also thinking of another friend  Greg Peck  who was a good friend of LBJ. Greg said to him  'Do you suppose we will live to see a black President?' LBJ said  'No  but I wish her well '"  Lee  wrote.
The letters track years of correspondence between  Lee  and Itzkoff  a New York resident whom the author referred to as "Clipper " short for "Yankee Clipper." Itzkoff died in 2011.
In a Christmas card from 2009   Lee  wrote: "Most-loved Clipper: Don't know if you celebrate Christmas  but it makes not a jot of difference to  me . I am at heart a heathen."
Other letters talked about  Lee 's Southern heritage and  her  father A.C. Lee  the model for Finch.
 Lee  died in  her  hometown of Monroeville  Alabama  in February 2016 about seven months after publishing "Go Set a Watchman " a companion book to  her  Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.
BIRMINGHAM  Ala. (AP) — A batch of letters handwritten by "To Kill a Mockingbird" author  [TGT]  to a friend has sold for more than $12 000.
"On this Inauguration Day I count my blessings ... I'm also thinking of another friend  Greg Peck  who was a good friend of LBJ. Greg said to him  'Do you suppose we will live to see a black President?' LBJ said  'No  but I wish her well '"  Lee  wrote.
The letters track years of correspondence between  Lee  and Itzkoff  a New York resident whom the author referred to as "Clipper " short for "Yankee Clipper." Itzkoff died in 2011.
In a Christmas card from 2009   Lee  wrote: "Most-loved Clipper: Don't know if you celebrate Christmas  but it makes not a jot of difference to  me . I am at heart a heathen."
Other letters talked about  Lee 's Southern heritage and  her  father A.C. Lee  the model for Finch.
 Lee  died in  her  hometown of Monroeville  Alabama  in February 2016 about seven months after publishing "Go Set a Watchman " a companion book to  her  Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.