The man with the collection said his Great Aunt had a great admiration for Amelia and talked of the last flight she made saying, "Most of her friends were trying to discourage it because technically she wasn't the most proficient pilot, she was just a great adventurer, [had] tremendous courage, and just had that spirit, and they were concerned because this was a very technical flight, the navigator as everybody knows had some history..., and the equipment including the radio, as we later found out, wasn't very good, so they were concerned that maybe this was a little bit too risky."
Of course this was just his memory of his Great Aunt's memory. Nevertheless, interesting.
The estimator said that, "Prices for her (Amelia) manuscript have very much appreciated in the last 10 or 15 years." Does this have anything to do with TIGHAR's efforts?...