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Marilyn woe note on block

An anguished letter Marilyn Monroe wrote to her acting mentor — detailing her psychological struggles in front of the camera and her feeling she was “going crazy’’ — is up for auction.

Monroe’s missive to Lee Strasberg, famed director of the Actors Studio, is among hundreds of documents — including letters then-Allied Commander Dwight D. Eisenhower wrote his wife and a draft letter from John Lennon to Linda and Paul McCartney — going under the hammer in the online May 30 sale by Profiles in History.

Monroe, in an undated letter handwritten on Hotel Bel-Air letterhead stationery, despairingly told Strasberg, “My will is weak, but I can’t stand anything.”

“I sound crazy, but I think I’m going crazy,’’ she wrote. “It’s just that I get before a camera and my concentration and everything I’m trying to learn leaves me. Then I feel like I’m not existing in the human race at all.’’

The letter is expected to fetch $30,000 to $50,000.