(by Alessandra Baldini) (ANSA) - NEW YORK, 12 JUL - A story of passion, death and literature: two wedding rings and love letters from Sylvia Platha Ted Hughes were auctioned by her daughter Frieda who was less than three years old when the author of "Ariel" and "LaCampana di Vetro" killed herself with gas after leaving the milk, bread and butter on the kitchen table for her breakfast. There are a total of 55 lots that Sotheby's offers online up to 21 including the bible that belonged to the Bostonian writer and a series of letters that she and Hughes exchanged during one of the most famous, passionate and unhappy relationships in Anglo-American literature. "The auction reflects the happiest and most dynamic part of my parents' relationship, the period in which they worked best together,they were still passionately in love and leaning on each other, "said Frieda, 61, herself a children's book writer and artist." My mother's letters to my father show extraordinary love. It is rare to find someone like this in a lifetime ", he said, explaining that he had decided to get rid of the tangible memories of his family past" so that they can continue to have a life beyond me. "Fragile and brilliant, Sylvia Plath is committed suicide at thirty in 1963 the year after her relationship with Hughes ended. The letters date back to the time when, in 1956, the newly married Ted and Sylvia spent a period apart while she was studying in Cambridge with a Fulbright scholarship and he had gone to London.one another, "said Frieda, 61, herself a writer of children's books and an artist:" My mother's letters to my father show an extraordinary love. It is rare to find someone like this in a lifetime ", he said, explaining that he had decided to get rid of the tangible memories of his family past" so that they can continue to have a life beyond me. "Fragile and brilliant, Sylvia Plath is committed suicide at thirty in 1963 the year after her relationship with Hughes ended. The letters date back to the time when, in 1956, the newly married Ted and Sylvia spent a period apart while she was studying in Cambridge with a Fulbright scholarship and he had gone to London.one another, "said Frieda, 61, herself a writer of children's books and an artist:" My mother's letters to my father show an extraordinary love. It is rare to find someone like this in a lifetime ", he said, explaining that he had decided to get rid of the tangible memories of his family past" so that they can continue to have a life beyond me. "Fragile and brilliant, Sylvia Plath is committed suicide at thirty in 1963 the year after her relationship with Hughes ended. The letters date back to the time when, in 1956, the newly married Ted and Sylvia spent a period apart while she was studying in Cambridge with a Fulbright scholarship and he had gone to London.My mother's letters to my father show extraordinary love. It is rare to find someone like this in a lifetime ", he said, explaining that he had decided to get rid of the tangible memories of his family past" so that they can continue to have a life beyond me. "Fragile and brilliant, Sylvia Plath is committed suicide at thirty in 1963 the year after her relationship with Hughes ended. The letters date back to the time when, in 1956, the newly married Ted and Sylvia spent a period apart while she was studying in Cambridge with a Fulbright scholarship and he had gone to London.My mother's letters to my father show extraordinary love. It is rare to find someone like this in a lifetime ", he said, explaining that he had decided to get rid of the tangible memories of his family past" so that they can continue to have a life beyond me. "Fragile and brilliant, Sylvia Plath is committed suicide at thirty in 1963 the year after her relationship with Hughes ended. The letters date back to the time when, in 1956, the newly married Ted and Sylvia spent a period apart while she was studying in Cambridge with a Fulbright scholarship and he had gone to London.may continue to have a life beyond me. "Fragile and brilliant, Sylvia Plath committed suicide at thirty in 1963 the year after her relationship with Hughes ended. The 16 letters date back to the period when, in 1956, Ted and Sylvia , newly married, they spent a period apart while she was studying at Cambridge with a Fulbright scholarship and he had gone to London.may continue to have a life beyond me. "Fragile and brilliant, Sylvia Plath committed suicide at thirty in 1963 the year after her relationship with Hughes ended. The 16 letters date back to the period when, in 1956, Ted and Sylvia , newly married, they spent a period apart while she was studying at Cambridge with a Fulbright scholarship and he had gone to London.
These are the only letters from Plath to her husband known to be: they will be sold individually for a total estimate of between 143,000 and 202,000 pounds. (HANDLE).