Joe DiMaggio’s letters to Marilyn Monroe to be auctioned off
AP Joe DiMaggio and Marilyn Monroe seen in January 1954. 
New York Day after day News Archive The iconic couple seen boarding a plane in 1954. 
AP Marilyn Monroe kisses Joe DiMaggio as they wait in the judge’s chambers for the marriage ceremony. 
AP Monroe announced her separation to DiMaggio and the public at the same time.
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BEVERLY HILLS — Baseball splendid Joe DiMaggio’s raw pain over the breakup of his marriage to Marilyn Monroe is evident in heartbroken letters from a long-bolt from the blue collection that goes up for bid at auction next month.
“I like you and want to be with you,” DiMaggio said in one pained letter to Monroe, written when she announced she was filing for divorce in 1954 after just nine months of marriage. “There is nothing I would like better than to restore your confidence in me.”
The Yankees legend wrote in his letter that he learned Monroe was leaving him when he saw her make the announcement on television.
Jae C. Hong/AP One of the letters was addressed to Mrs. Joe DiMaggio. 
Jae C. Hong/AP Some of the heartbreaking letters were penned after Monroe announced she was divorcing DiMaggio. Jae C. Hong/AP Letters written by Joe DiMaggio to Marilyn Monroe are scheduled to hit the auction block in December. 
AP The couple had only been married for nine months when Monroe announced she was divorcing DiMaggio.
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“My heart split even wider considering you weep in front of all these people,” he wrote in the letter addressed to Mrs. Joe DiMaggio.”
The letters are being put on the block by Julien’s Auctions in Beverly Hills.
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