A sixty-year-old sketch of Wednesday by her creator Charles Addams was sold yesterday at Heritage Auctions. It is dated April 1965, which was toward the end of Season 1 of "The Addams Family" television program. The paper it is on appears trimmed, with a partial symbol visible in the upper left.
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| Charles Addams Heritage Auctions listing accessed October 25, 2025 four days before the sale |
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| Charles Addams Heritage Auctions item description |
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Gregory Sofsky was born around 1938 in Pennsylvania, according to Ancestry.com. A copy of Addams and Evil (1947) was personalized for him by cartoonist Charles Addams in 1967 with a drawing of the Addams Family's Wednesday. That volume is now on the market, offered for sale by Mausoleum Books—you can't make this up—of Glendale, for $2,750.
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| Charles Addams AbeBooks listing accessed December 31, 2022 |
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To recap: Charles Addams presented his friend Fleur with a copy of Drawn and Quartered, the reissue, in 1970. He included a drawing of the Addams Family's Morticia along with an inscription, in French, alluding to their April picnic in a cemetery.
The same recipient's copy of My Crowd, also inscribed to her in 1970, the year of publication, has a drawing of Wednesday, the daughter of the Addams Family, that refers to the same al fresco graveyard dining experience. Both volumes, and others from Fleur's library, are offered for sale by Meier and Sons Rare Books. This book comes with a card from Addams as well.
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| New Yorker greeting card with the Addams cover art of February 2, 1957 |
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| A letter on a New Yorker card from Charles Addams to Dona—he also sends his affection to Fleur—is amended with a note from "itinerant journalist" Dona to Fleur. The whole thing was apparently passed along to Fleur and is now included in this lot. "Alice" is Alice B. Curr, Addams's dog. "Housewife! Superstar!!" is Barry Humphries's off-Broadway performance as Dame Edna Everage. This reliably dates Addams's letter to the fall of 1977. |
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| "Now kick Daddy good night and run along to bed." |
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| "This is your room. If you should need anything, just scream." "Well, here's where I say good night." |
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| Charles Addams eBay listing accessed October 29, 2022 |
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| Charles Addams eBay item description |
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| Two excerpts from the Times review of "Housewife! Superstar!!" relevant to Addams's letter |
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| https://www.ebay.com/itm/334459945667?... |
Note: What is Fleur's surname? Dona's? Anybody?
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| "Oh, she's furious because they put her on the honor roll at school." Charles Addams Original art The New Yorker, October 16, 1954, p. 25 |
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| "Oh, she's furious because they put her on the honor roll at school." Charles Addams Framed and glazed original art The New Yorker, October 16, 1954, p. 25 |
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| Charles Addams Sotheby's Fine Books and Manuscripts, Including Americana, Part 2, Lot 1120 July 21, 2022 |
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| "Oh, she's furious because they put her on the honor roll at school." Charles Addams Original art The New Yorker, October 16, 1954, p. 25 |
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| Cartoons by Robert Day and Charles Addams |
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Charles Addams's cartoon collection Favorite Haunts was published in the US by Simon and Schuster in 1976. The first British edition, spelled Favourite Haunts, came out the following year. The dust jacket will probably be unfamiliar to most American fans of Addams; it was certainly unknown to me. Ordinarily I am no fan of that superfluous unsounded u in the British spelling of words like favour and colour, but I think it works in this title quite well. Not only does the ou in Favourite complement the au in Haunts, it lends the title a gothic English mustiness that looks great on Addams.
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| Charles Addams eBay listing ended January 24, 2021 |
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| Charles Addams eBay item description |
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| "Is it anyone we know?" |
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| Charles Addams eBay Listing Retrieved October 20, 2019 |
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| Charles Addams eBay Item Description |
