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Typed Letter, signed. 11x8½". Signed and with a sketch of his little man in red ink.

Bukowski tries to get Libby to visit him by saying he has broken up with his three girlfriends (including his future wife Linda Lee). He admits that he is “quite emotionally fucked up” but much of his ”writing takes right off on human relationships”. Bukowski attempts to woo Libby by saying he would like to get her into some of his poems. He closes: "Anyway, your letters have fired me up. You've got yourself a problem now: me. Libby, what the hell are you going to do with me?" Libby would later write of their relationship in “Blowing My Hero” (1995) under the pen name Amber O’Neil. The book coming after Bukowski married Linda Lee in 1986 created a great deal of controversy and had to be withdrawn. A copy of this book is offered elsewhere in this catalogue.