AUGUST 11/1977 SAD LETTER TO ELVIS FROM PAUL LICHTER - JUST SIGNED AGAIN IN 2020

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LONG LIVE THE KING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
FOR THOSE LUCKY ENOUGH TO REMEMBER, WEREN'T THE DAYS WHEN ELVIS REIGNED AS KING TRULY "THE GOOD OLD DAYS."
THIS AUCTION FEATURES ONE OF THE MOST HEART-WARMING ELVIS HISTORICAL COLLECTIBLES I HAVE EVER OFFERED ON EBAY.  THE DOCUMENT OFFERED IN THIS AUCTION ORIGINATED EVEN BEFORE ELVIS PASSED ON AUGUST 16, 1977.
IT IS A COPY OF A VERY COMPASSIONATE LETTER SENT TO ELVIS AT GRACELAND BY ONE OF HIS CLOSEST FRIENDS ON AUGUST 11, 1977. OF COURSE, THAT IS WHEN ELVIS WAS STILL ALIVE AND JUST 5 DAYS BEFORE ELVIS PASSED.
THE ORIGINAL LETTER WAS SENT TO ELVIS BY PAUL LICHTER, HIS CLOSE FRIEND, HIS PHOTOGRAPHER, AND HIS BUSINESS ASSOCIATE.  LICHTER SIGNED THE ORGINAL LETTER ON AUGUST 11, 1977 TO EXPRESS HIS SUPPORT OF ELVIS DURING THE PROBLEMS HE WAS HAVING WITH SOME OF HIS INNER CIRCLE FRIENDSHIPS AT THAT TIME.
LITTLE DID HE KNOW THAT ELVIS WOULD PASS JUST 5 DAYS LATER.  I HAVE HAD A COPIES OF THAT COMPASSIONATE LETTER LITERALLY FOR DECADES.
RECENTLY, I HAD THE HONOR OF WORKING WITH PAUL LICHTER ON EBAY.  WHEN ASKED IF HE WOULD AUTOGRAPH THE 43 YEAR-OLD COPIES I HAD IN MY COLLECTION AGAIN, HE KINDLY AGREED.  IN ESSENCE, LICHTER AUTOGRAPHED THAT LETTER TWICE - JUST 43 YEARS APART.  FIRST IN 1977 AND AGAIN IN 2020.  THE NEWLY AUTOGRAPHED (PERSONALLY SIGNED) COPY I OFFER IN THIS AUCTION IS PRISTINE.
AFTER ENJOYING THE HONOR OF CORRESPONDING WITH PAUL LICHTER ON EBAY, I SENT MY COPIES OF THE LETTER TO HIM.  HE AUTOGRAPHED THEM AND SENT THEM BACK TO ME IN THE ENVELOPE YOU SEE IN THE PHOTOS ABOVE.  THE ENVELOPE IS NOT PART OF THE AUCTION.  AS YOU CAN SEE IN THE PHOTOS, I BLOCKED OUT MY PERSONAL INFO, BUT THE ENVELOPE IS THE ACTUAL ONE USED BY LICHTER TO MAIL BACK TO ME.
IN ADDITION, AS A BONUS HE SENT ME AN AUTOGRAPHED PHOTO OF HIMSELF WITH ELVIS BACK IN THE LATE 60's OR EARLY 70's.  THE PERSON IN THE PHOTO STANDING BEHIND ELVIS APPERS TO BE JOE ESPOSITO.  THE PHOTO IS NOT PART OF THE AUCTION EITHER, BUT I WANTED TO SHARE WITH YOU THE MEMORIES BEHIND THE REASON WHY LICHTER SENT ELVIS THE ORIGINAL LETTER ON AUGUST 11, 1977 UNKNOWINGLY BEFORE ELVIS PASSED JUST FIVE DAYS LATER. SAD!!!!!
JUST READ THE COPY OF THE ORIGINAL LETTER SENT TO ELVIS, AND YOU WILL UNDERSTAND THE WARMTH THAT WAS INCLUDED IN THE MESSAGE TO ELVIS.
ELVIS WOULD HAVE BEEN 85 YEARS OLD IN 2020.  AS YOU CAN SEE IN THE PHOTO, I'M GUESSING THAT PAUL LITCHER WAS CLOSE TO EVIS' AGE.
THE ODDS OF GETTING THOSE 1977 COPIES OF THE ORIGINAL LETTER THAT WAS SENT TO ELVIS AT GRACELAND SO MANY DECADES AGO PERSONALLY SIGNED ONCE AGAIN BY THE SAME CLOSE FRIEND OF ELVIS IN 2020 ARE ASTRONOMICAL.
THE CONTENT OF THAT HISTORICAL AUGUST 11, 1977 LETTER SENT TO ELVIS BY HIS CLOSE FRIEND SPEAKS FOR ITSELF.  JUST READ IT AND TEARS COME TO YOUR EYES (IF YOU ARE A TRUE ELVIS FAN).  BUT TO HAVE THE ORIGINAL SENDER OF THAT LETTER AGREE TO PERSONALLY SIGN THE ORIGINAL COPIES OF THAT LETTER AGAIN (FOR A SECOND TIME) IN 2020 MAKE THIS THE ONLY SUCH ELVIS COLLECTIBLE IN EXISTENCE.
FOR WHATEVER REASON, WHEN HE SIGNED THE COPIES OF THE LETTER, HE WROTE 11/19/20.  THE CORRECT DATE THEY WERE SIGNED WAS ACTUALLY 5/19/20.  YOU CAN SEE THE MAILING DATE BACK TO ME ON THE ENVELOPE WAS 5/27/20.  EITHER WAY, THE TWICE-SIGNED COPIES ARE TRULY AUTHENTIC.
UNDISPUTEDLY, ELVIS IS THE GREATEST ENTERTAINER/SINGER OF ALL TIME.  WE ELVIS FANS OWE THAT MAN A DEBT THAT WE CAN NEVER PAY.  LONG LIVE THE KING!!!!!
THIS 43-YEAR COINCIDENTAL ODDITY MAKES FOR A GREAT HEART-WARMING TRIBUTE MEMORY FOR SOME ELVIS FAN THAT WAS 43 YEARS IN THE MAKING.
BY THE WAY, PAUL LICHTER IS PERHAPS THE LEADING AUTHORITY ON ELVIS STILL LIVING.  HE HAS WRITTEN ENDLESS BOOKS, TAKEN ENDLESS NUMBERS OF INTIMATE ELVIS PHOTOS, HAD FULL GRACELAND PRIVILEGES TO SEE ELVIS, ETC.  IT IS AN HONOR TO JUST HAVE MET ELVIS' CLOSE FRIEND.  HE IS A CLASS ACT AND HAS DONE MORE TO CARRY ON ELVIS' MEMORY PERHAPS THAN ANY OTHER.
LONG LIVE THE KING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11
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