Lot 4483
(King, Martin Luther, Jr.) James Earl Ray. Alleged assassin of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.; died in prison in 1998. Typed Letter Signed ("J. Ray") from prison in Nashville, Tennessee, where he was serving a 99 year sentence, Sept. 17, 1981, one page, quarto. To Ed Quinn in New Jersey, in response to a request for a photograph. Ray says the only photos he has are "small ones in Newspapers which relate to some story." He offers to have his wife draw a picture for a fee and encloses a newspaper clipping about a prison attack in which he was stabbed 22 times by other inmates. With transmittal envelope.
Estimated Value $250 - 300.
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