30 March,2011 07:29 AM IST | | Agencies
Before becoming a bride eight times over, Elizabeth Taylor was a 17-year-old starlet scribbling letters to her first fiance, charting on pale pink stationery his progression from her one-and-only to the one who got away.
"I've never known this kind of love before it's so perfect and complete and mature," Taylor wrote to William Pawley on May 6, 1949. "I've never loved anyone in my life before one third as much as I love you and I never will."
Elizabeth Taylor wrote Pawley 60 letters in which she fretted about her weight and movies
Taylor, who died last week at age 79, was engaged to Pawley in 1949, just before her first marriage.
More than 60 of the letters she wrote him will be auctioned in May by RR Auctions of Amherst, New Hampshire. It bought the letters two years ago from Pawley, who lives in Florida.
The unpublished letters - some written in purple ink on pink paper provide a glimpse of a teenager's transition to adult screen star.
"My heart aches and makes me want to cry when I think of you, and how much I want to be with and to look into your beautiful blue eyes, and kiss your sweet lips and have your strong arms hold me, oh so tight, and close to you... I want us to be 'lovers' always... even after we've been married 75 years and have at least a dozen great-great-grandchildren," she wrote on March 28.
The online auction, set for May 19-26, will also feature letters Taylor's mother wrote to Pawley after the engagement ended
Bobby Livingston, spokesman for the auction house, said the letters were estimated to be worth $25,000 (Rs 11.18 lakh) before Taylor's death, and he expects they could fetch two or three times that amount now.
