Archive of Hugh Hefner Letters, Photos, and Ephemera.
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Hefner, Hugh. Archive of Hugh Hefner Letters, Photos, and Ephemera. 1980s—2000s. Over 70 letters, one to three pages each, most typed, a few handwritten, majority on personal “HMH” blind-embossed letterhead (some with a Playboy logo watermark), signed “Hef” in black Sharpie (one signed “Goo”), many accompanied by a boyish caricature profile sketch and heart symbol that characterized his correspondence to Jane Borson Sellers, a best friend from high school and lifelong friend and confidant, warmly written and pertaining to numerous personal matters including marriage, birth announcements and parenting, letters of thanks and congratulations on various accomplishments, thank-yous, and more, the last letter dated March 28, 2017, the year Hefner died, just a single moving line, “Dearest Janie: We shared wonderful lives together. I love you./Always/Hef.” Sold with four binders of related material, including over 50 candid color photos (bulk 5 x 7”) of high school class reunions, birthdays, parties, and other get-togethers (1980s—90s), a few apparently hosted at the Playboy Mansion, most (but not all) depicting Hefner, and tipped onto pages in a binder; an assortment of personal greeting cards and family photos of the Hefners; an album of news and magazine clippings on Hefner, compiled by Sellers; and a quantity of facsimile or reprint photos and letters.
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Archive of Hugh Hefner Letters, Photos, and Ephemera.
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