A love letter sent by British singer John Lennon to his first wife, artist Cynthia Powell, is set to go up for auction next month in London. The document is estimated to fetch up to 40,000 pounds (approximately 46,000 euros).
The letter, which will be sold by the British auction house Christie’s on July 9th, was penned in April 1962, when John Lennon was 21 years old and the Beatles were residing in Hamburg, Germany.
“I love you, I love you, I love you. And I miss you terribly,” wrote the singer and songwriter, before making an suggestive remark: “I wish I was on my way to your apartment with Sunday papers, chocolates, and a vibrator.”
In the letter, Lennon also reminisced about his friend and the Beatles’ first bassist, Stuart Sutcliffe, who had died days earlier, and mentioned to his wife that visiting his fiancée, Astrid, “would be too strange.”
He also opposed Cynthia Powell’s plan of sharing a house with Dot Rhone, then-girlfriend of Paul McCartney, in Liverpool, explaining: “We would never truly be alone… Imagine having her there all the time when we were in bed – and imagine Paul always there.”
“Paul is jumping in my head, he’s on a bunk above me and he’s snoring. Shut up, McCartney!” he wrote.
Finally, Lennon reiterated his love for his wife. “I love you, I love you. Please wait for me,” it reads.
It is noteworthy that Cynthia Powell and John Lennon dated since 1958 and married in 1962. Their son, Julian, was born in April 1963.
The couple would separate in 1968, and Lennon married Yoko Ono a year later.
