NAMES IN THE NEWS : Sale of Welles Manuscript Set

Rebecca Welles, the daughter of Rita Hayworth and Orson Welles, plans to auction off an unpublished manuscript of a story Welles wrote for her when she was a child. Publication rights for the story are also included.

The 68-page unbound volume, which Welles wrote for Rebecca as a Christmas gift in 1956 when she was 12, also includes his illustrations and the text is both handwritten and typed. The story is an account of an annual medieval pageant called Bravade in the French Riviera town of St. Tropez, honoring the town’s patron saint. “I believe this is the first time an unpublished manuscript has been sold at a major auction along with its publication rights,” said George Lowry, president of Swann Galleries, which will auction the book next Thursday. “It is a singular event and we expect the manuscript to bring as much as $30,000.”