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Scientology Founder’s Risqué Letters to Encinitas Pal Up for Auction at Christie’s
Posted by Ken Stone on June 12, 2018
L. Ron Hubbard, the science-fiction writer who launched Scientology, wrote an old Encinitas friend in April 1950 about his hopes for literary wealth.
“I’ve got my eye on the dollar sign,” Hubbard wrote Russell Hays, another pulp-fiction luminary. “With other books, magazine articles, lectures and maybe a rich patient or two I think I can clean up a few bucks.”
A few days later, “Dianetics” was published — and the controversial religion followed four years later.
On Thursday, Christie’s in New York will auction a batch of 26 letters from Hubbard to Hays (one sent from El Cajon). The trove of mostly typed material has an estimated value of $10,000 to $15,000.
Peter Klarnet, Christie’s senior specialist for Americana, Books & Manuscripts, said those figures are only an estimate.
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Scientology Founder’s Risqué Letters to Encinitas Pal Up for Auction at Christie’s
Posted by Ken Stone on June 12, 2018
L. Ron Hubbard, the science-fiction writer who launched Scientology, wrote an old Encinitas friend in April 1950 about his hopes for literary wealth.
“I’ve got my eye on the dollar sign,” Hubbard wrote Russell Hays, another pulp-fiction luminary. “With other books, magazine articles, lectures and maybe a rich patient or two I think I can clean up a few bucks.”
A few days later, “Dianetics” was published — and the controversial religion followed four years later.
On Thursday, Christie’s in New York will auction a batch of 26 letters from Hubbard to Hays (one sent from El Cajon). The trove of mostly typed material has an estimated value of $10,000 to $15,000.
Peter Klarnet, Christie’s senior specialist for Americana, Books & Manuscripts, said those figures are only an estimate.
more@link
https://timesofsandiego.com/arts/20...to-encinitas-pal-up-for-auction-at-christies/