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Thu 12 Dec 2009Beckett letters fail to sell
A rare collection of correspondence from Samuel Beckett to two close friends failed to sell at auction in Sotheby's in London today.
A series of 240 letters, postcards and notes from the playwright to the painter Avigdor Arikha and his wife, the writer Anne Atik, had been put up for auction with a guide price of between £200,000 and £300,000 (€225,000 and €337,000).
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