“I love you, please wait”: a love letter written by John Lennon to his first wife Cynthia Powell will soon be put on sale for Christie’s, announced this Thursday, June 12, the sales center.
It is estimated between 30,000 and 40,000 pounds (between 35,000 and 46,000 euros), this letter will be offered at an auction on July 9 in London.
John Lennon wrote it in April 1962, at the age of 21, when the group was in residence in Hamburg. “I love you, I love you, I love you and I miss you terribly …”, the singer wrote before concluding his prayer with a sexual involvement.
“Please wait and not be sad, work hard,” he wrote again.
Lennon also evokes his close friend and first bassist of the Beatles, Stuart Sutcliffe, who died a few days before, saying that he had planned to visit his fiancot Astrid, before changing his mind. “It would be too clumsy,” he wrote.
Lennon complains about McCartney’s snoring
In his letter, he also says that he opposes Cynthia projects to share a house with Dorothy Rhone, the girlfriend of Paul McCartney’s time: “We would never be really alone,” he said.
He also took the opportunity to complain about his partner’s night habits, Paul McCartney, complaining about his gestures … and his snoring.
Cynthia Powell and John Lennon met, art students in Liverpool in 1957, long before “Beatlemania” made him a rock star. He was 18 and 17 years old. The couple married in 1962, but Lennon left Cynthia for Yoko Ono six years later.
In 2005, in a biographical book entitled “John” Cynthia Powell revealed that she was sometimes mistreated by Lennon, but remained fascinated by the charisma she died in 1980, murdered by Mark David Chapman near Central Park.
Source: BFM TV
