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Permalink Reply by Eric Keith Longo on October 23, 2016 at 2:15pm

Hi,

Seems secretarial - see 4th from bottom here -  "Best wishes":

MM

Eric

Permalink Reply by Pauline Berry on October 23, 2016 at 5:20pm

Hi Julia

This is a secretarial from a later period about 1959, the photo is actually one that Marilyn herself has said was her very favourite of all time. Cecil Beaton took it. This is still a valuable item being genuinely sent from Marilyn's own team and the photo itself being of the era and origin it is. It's possibly worth at least a couple of hundred dollars, maybe up to 500?   it should be advertised as being a secretarial signed photo of Marilyn Monroe if you are selling it.

I refer you to my blog for comparison http://marilynmonroesecretarials.blogspot.co.nz/ - I call this Style F and there are two examples on there in the same hand.

Permalink Reply by Eric Keith Longo on October 23, 2016 at 6:18pm

Yes, the photo appears to be pearl finish, perhaps double weight. If it bears a studio stamp from Beaton, better still. If 11x14, better again.

Permalink Reply by Julia on October 24, 2016 at 11:14am

Dear Pauline and Eric, thank you very much for your assessment! I knew that it is a Cecil Beaton Photograph, but there is no stamp on it. Beatons pictures have been displayed in our art museum many years ago and I was really surprised to find the picture there hanging on the wall, my father guards like a treasure since he has been a boy. 1959 could be right. He was 14 years old when he wrote the letter. Thank you very much!!! Greetings from Germany.