The Library of Roger Wagner - PBA Galleries

180. Durrell, lAWrence. One-page typed letter signed, to Henry Miller, with 3 holographed red hearts and
elaborate colorful drawings. 1 page TLs with a large black ink drawing colored with yellow, red, orange,
purple and blue marker.
Sommieres: Dec. 15, no year
Lot 180
Page 86
Durrell wrote this letter around
Christmas, reporting the usual interesting
news & memories of the old days: “...
Little Buttons sends her love for Xmas.
She has re-emerged briefly and is just as
mischevious as ever and still very pretty;
what luck to tumble into her arms on a
wet Saturday...Ghislaine is fixing up a flat
in Paris. I think with some regrets but
really we were not suited - her notion
of a foyer was the salle des d‚parts at
Orly. She wore me out with her gambols
and expense...Just reading Brassai’s solid
documented and thoughtful book about
you and incidentally us. What he brings
out so well is that our friendship and
admiration for each other was so firm
that it withstood every kind of harsh test
like changing ideas, changing notions of
good and bad writing - it was unique in
that; down deep we firmly believed in
each other as artists even when being
critical and feeling that the other had
taken a fausse route...What an epoch to
live through. Now all that is left is senile
seniority and ennui. Can we throb to
Mailer and Roth? I can’t. Bellow yes. This
is where one feels the arteries getting
hard....” Fine.
(1000/1500)
181. fonDA, JAne. Two holograph letters and one typed letter signed from Jane Fonda to Henry Miller. 2 holograph
letters from Jane Fonda, signed. Plus one TLs from Jane Fonda to Henry Miller.
California: 1976
Each letter is in regards to her fundraising efforts for a solar energy project in California.
The two holograph letters were sent to Miller before and after an auction was held in 1976
(according to the postage stamp), one requesting art work or written work from Miller to be
auctioned off, and the later one thanking him for his art work donation, which Fonda won at
auction. One letter in original envelope. Fine.
(200/300)
182. insley, Joseph “Joey” J. Three autograph letters signed from Henry Miller’s childhood friend Joey, plus an
original photograph of a 13 year old Miller with Joey and family. Lot includes: Original photograph (printed
later) of a young Henry Miller (about 13 years old) with his father, mother, and his childhood friends
Tony and Joey and their family, all in front of a large house in Bensonhurst resided in by Joey and
Tony’s aunt and uncle’s family. 7x5. Bensonhurst, [c.1911]. * 3 ALs from Joey (of Miller’s chapter
in Book of Friends entitled, “Tony and Joey”), one of which explains who each person in the
photograph is. 2 letters in their original mailing envelopes. 1978.
Various places: Various dates
The letters from Miller’s long lost friend Joe Insley (misnamed Imhof in Miller’s Book of
Friends), were written in 1978 when Joey was 89, detail where his and his brother Tony’s lives
have taken them. Fine.
(250/350)