Documents of Martin Luther King Junior went on display again this morning in preparation for auction — this time at an Atlanta auction gallery.

The small collection of letters, notes and speeches — some believed to have been written by King, some addressed to him — sat for 40 years in a faded green folder belonging to a woman who now lives in Maryland. The woman, said to be an Atlanta native and childhood friend of King’s, came forward after the successful sale of a much larger collection sold by Sotheby’s New York for 32 (m) million dollars.
Since announcing the auction last week, Paul Brown, the owner of Gallery 63, said he has received hundreds of e-mails from the media and interested buyers. He has not heard from the King family, despite one relative saying it would halt the auction.

Posted: 04|10|07 at 7:58 am. Filed under: US News.