Thompson work up for auction

A trove of late author and journalist Hunter S. Thompson’s letters and sketches will be auctioned on Thursday. The 182 items will go under the hammer at Nate D. Sanders Auctions in Los Angeles. The letters begin in 1955 when a 17-year-old Thompson wrote to his Louisville, Ky., childhood friend Paul Semonin, who was attending Yale University. All but two of the letters in the collection were written to Semonin. The other two items include a telegram from Thompson to author Tom Wolfe and a letter to an unnamed friend. Thompson’s letters to Semonin span from 1955-1974 and are highly personal, providing “a clear look at Thompson’s view of the world.”