$2,375
A draft of a five-page letter from Johnny Cash to Billboard's Country Music Editor Chet Flippo, dated May 29, 1981, written in blue ink on lined paper. The letter discusses a negative article written by Flippo on the life of Hank Williams, Sr. Cash argues in Williams' defense by paralleling the famed oration of Mark Antony in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar; Cash writes, "'I Come to bury Caesar; Not to praise him.' - I'd like to let Hank Williams rest in his grave, and say a few words in his defense. 'The evil that men do often lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones.' - The weaker side of a public figures character is illuminated by the media...The good, the kind and praiseworthy personal acts of a man like Hank Williams is often buried with him." Cash continues on to point out the many fine characteristics he knew of Hank Williams. Cash also adds the postscript "P.S. A diamond is a diamond and a stone is a stone, but no man is all good nor all bad." Signed "Johnny Cash." Categories: Johnny Cash
Auctioneer:
Juliens Auctions
Date:
2010-12-05
