BOULDER, Colorado -- Authorities asked Patsy Ramsey in late May - a month before she died of cancer - whether she would be willing to meet with the man who claims he killed her six-year-old daughter, the Ramsey family's lawyer said yesterday. Ramsey said she would meet with John Mark Karr if it would advance the investigation into JonBenet Ramsey's Christmas time 1996 slaying, but the meeting never took place because authorities did not get back to her before she died in June, lawyer Lin Wood said. The lawyer also said the written correspondence Karr sent to Patsy Ramsey was never received by her because police or someone else set up an address for the correspondence to be sent to make it look like he was writing to Ramsey. It was turned over to the police instead. A spokesman for the Roswell, Georgia, police department, which helped to identify and locate Karr, declined to say yesterday whether his agency conducted the correspondence ruse.