Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe ATLANTIC CITY, N.J., Nov. 7 (UPI) -- Public outcry has led an Atlantic City, N.J., man to remove a bag of letters to God he found on the beach from the online eBay auction Web site. Bill Lacovara said bidding had reached $550, but outrage was higher that he would auction intimate documents written as long ago as 1973, the Newark (N.J.) Star-Ledger reported Tuesday. Advertisement While about half of the 300 mostly unopened prayer letters are illegible because of their time in the water, Lacovara said he thought there would be public interest in them. There was among about 25 bidders, but there was more anger, so he withdrew them, and said he will give them to the daughter of the deceased Baptist minister who had collected them. The Rev. Grady Cooper, a former associate pastor of the Mount Calvary Baptist Church in Jersey City, N.J., died nearly two years ago, and Lacovara said he had tracked down his daughter for the handover, the newspaper said. "I apologize to anyone who was insulted," Lacovara told the newspaper. "It was never my intention to offend anyone. I was looking at these more like antiques." Advertisement There was no indication how the bag of letters ended up the water, the report said.
