On August 6th of 1962, a day after 36-year-old Marilyn Monroe passed away, the following unsent letter, addressed to ex-husband Joe DiMaggio, was discovered at her desk, folded up in her address book. It is thought they were planning to remarry.
Transcript follows.
(Source: MM-Personal: From the Private Archive of Marilyn Monroe; Image: Joe DiMaggio & Marilyn Monroe, via.)
Transcript
Dear Joe,
If I can only succeed in making you happy — I will have succeeded in the bigest and most difficult thing there is — that is to make one person completely happy. Your happiness means my happiness.
