Katharine Hepburn's love letters to Howard Hughes up for auction
LOS ANGELES — She signed off as “Country Mouse” and called him “My most excellent boss.”She was Hollywood star Katharine Hepburn and he was eccentric entrepreneur Howard Hughes. Many of her letters to him are going up for auction in Los Angeles for the first time on July 23.The emerald and diamond engagement ring Hughes gave to Hepburn in 1938 is also for sale, and is expected to fetch between $20,000 – $30,000 at the Profiles in History auction.Brian Chanes, head of consignment relations at Profiles in History, said the items were rare because of their personal nature.“Very little has really eked out because he (Hughes) was such a private individual,” Chanes said.