“I Go Nowhere; I See No One.”
Recently placed for sale at auction, the penciled letters were all written to her friend over a period of 40 years between 1932 and 1973. The candid look into Garbo’s intimate life is expected to fetch as much as $60,000 (the actual sale has yet to be reported). In one letter, written in 1937 on a trip to Sweden, Garbo wrote: “I go nowhere, see no one.”
One of Greta Garbo’s Letters. Source: catalogue.swanngalleries.com
She also wrote that she did the same in Hollywood and begged her dear friend Salka Viertel to rescue her. “It is hard and sad to be alone, but sometimes it’s even more difficult to be with someone,” Garbo wrote. “Somewhere in this world are a few beings who do not have it as we have, of that I am certain,” she continued.