NEW YORK (AP) – Six letters by “To Kill a Mockingbird” author Harper Lee to one of her close friends could bring as much as $250,000 at auction.
Christie’s is selling the signed and typed letters on Friday. They were written to New York architect Harold Caufield between 1956 and 1961.
Four of them date from before “Mockingbird” while Lee was caring for her ailing father, the model for her protagonist Atticus Finch.
In one, she writes about her “stunned” reaction to the success of her 1960 novel, later made into a movie.
Christie’s says only three other Lee letters have come up at auction in the last 35 years.
The 89-year-old author is in declining health and lives in an assisted-living home in Monroeville, Alabama.
The seller wasn’t identified.