An innuendo-filled letter sent from Ernest Hemingway to Marlene Dietrich, in which the author imagines performing a surreal sex act onstage with the German-born actress and singer, is up for auction.
Hemingway’s letter to the Hollywood star is dated August 28, 1955, and begins affectionately, ‘Dearest Kraut.’
The odd couple met while traveling across the Atlantic on the Ile de France in 1934 and their friendship lasted until the Nobel Prize-winning author committed suicide in 1961.
Although their ‘love affair’ was never consummated, they corresponded through a series of at least 30 flirty letters and telegrams over the years.
Those letters were donated by their families to the John F. Kennedy Library and were made public in 2007.
But now another of couple’s correspondences has being put up for auction through Gary Zimet’s Moments in Time with an opening bid of $54,000, reports the New York Post.
The letter reveals an unguarded Hemingway playfully using language to express deep and intense emotions for Dietrich, Daily Mail informs.
