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Miscellaneous Mabel Normand and Betty Coss Correspondence and Cards. Quite a variety here: A letter dated August 26, 1923, ... (Total: 5 )

Lot: 23275, Auction: 2006 October Music/Entertainment Memorabilia Signature Auction #634

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Ended: Oct 6, 2006
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Miscellaneous Mabel Normand and Betty Coss Correspondence and Cards. Quite a variety here: A letter dated August 26, 1923, to Mabel's secretary, Betty Coss, from an admirer of Mabel's in Chicago, thanking Betty for writing a letter to a magazine defending Mabel's honor; a typed statement, dated October 6, 1924, in which Betty denies that Mabel indulged in any impropriety with a "Mr. Church" while she was a patient at Los Angeles' Good Samaritan Hospital in August of 1923; a postcard showing Mabel's Beverly Hills home, postmarked August 31, 1929, with a $.02 stamp, signed "Marion McDonald" and sent to Betty Coss after she had married and moved to Chicago; a winter scene card, with a thank you note to Mabel for a picture she had sent; and a postcard of Ben Turpin's house, Beverly Hills, dated March 25, 1929, bearing a $.01 stamp, wishing Betty a "Happy Easter" and signed "Ben and Babette" (Turpin). In overall Very Fine condition.

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