'Homesick' Elvis letter in Auction

[presley31]

A letter Elvis wrote from Germany just after his mother Gladys died emerges for sale 54 years on. The King's note from 1958 will be auctioned in Spain this week. "I just want to tell you that I miss and love you all very much", Elvis wrote.
He had just lost his mother and was living thousands of miles from home in a foreign country.
So it’s fair to say that Elvis was feeling genuinely lonesome the night he wrote an emotional letter to his friends.
Aged 23 and doing his national service in Germany, he sent the rare note home in 1958 telling them how homesick he was and how much he missed his mother Gladys who had died three months earlier.
He also spoke of his frustration at having to postpone his burgeoning singing career for the two years he spent in the US military.
The two-page handwritten letter was addressed to a 15-year-old girl called Frances Forbes, but was meant for a whole group of friends back home in Memphis, Tennessee.
It has been with a private collector from Hertfordshire for many years, but has now come up for sale.
The letter reveals Elvis' vulnerable and tender side. We have had a lot of interest in it and we expect it to go for more than the pre-sale estimate of $6,000.
Elvis' letter includes, "Well I don’t know what ever made me decide to write a letter but I guess it’s because I am so homesick and lonely. I just want to tell you that I miss and love you all very much and I am just counting the hours until I can return and we will all be together again.... I guess I miss mother more over here than anything because I am just now realizing that she won’t ever be here anymore."
(News, Source;ElvisInfoNetwork)



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[Tommy]

Thank you my friend. Very sad letter.

[Snake Eyes]

Very sad, especially the part about his mum. Just shows you how vulnerable he was feeling at that point. I think Lisa or the Presley estate should bid on it though, bring it back home so to speak.

[cibetty]

Really sad letter. There is another site about it: http://www.elvis.ie/letter_auction.htm

[presley31]

Thank you my friend. Very sad letter.

Thanks for making the letter Bigger and your welcome too

[cibetty]

Her cousin, Patsy also talked about a letter in "Elvis By The Presleys" what he wrote from Germany.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B49NeR3mKno

[elvislina]

Not Easy losing a mother. its a pain you have with you through your life always. Elvis deserved a better life than losing a mother

[King Of The Whole World]

To me it's amazing how much his writing changed over the years, going from cursive writing to later in life of some lower case to uppercase words with squiggle lines.