Did you know?: Elizabeth Taylor’s love letter up for auction

A rare love letter by Elizabeth Taylor to her philandering husband Richard Burton has emerged


September 07, 2014

A rare love letter by Elizabeth Taylor to her philandering husband Richard Burton has emerged to show how she desperately fought to save their doomed marriage right to the end.

The note, thought to be the only Taylor-Burton love letter ever to become available for public sale, was written by the late actress days before the pair separated and three months before they divorced for the first time.



The screen legend penned the touching note to mark their 10th wedding anniversary in 1974, just weeks before they split, and three months before their first divorce, reports contactmusic.com.

In the letter, Taylor pledges her love to her unfaithful husband, who had numerous affairs in the 10 years of marriage, writing: “My darling (my still) My husband... I wish I could tell you of my love for you, of my fear, my delight, my pure animal pleasure of you  — (with you)  — my jealousy, my pride, my anger at you, at times.

“Most of all my love for you, and whatever love you can dole out to me  — I wish I could write about it but I can’t... Anyway I lust thee, Your (still) Wife,” the letter further reads.

The note is expected to be sold for at least $59,500 (35,000£) in an online auction on the Paul Fraser Collectibles website.

The couple remarried in 1975 and divorced for a second time in 1976. Burton died in 1984 and Taylor passed away in 2011.

Published in The Express Tribune, September 8th, 2014.

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