According to ultimateclassicrock.com, a letter that John Lennon signed on the same day that he was murdered is up for auction today, at Gotta Have Rock and Roll. The legal document dates back to December 8th, 1980 and is most likely one of the last items that John Lennon signed before his death. The item was sent by the late Beatle accountant, Barry Nichols, and in the typed letter, three people are listed as Lennon’s proxy voters, permitting them to vote at Apple Corps Limited Annual General Meeting that was taking place just nine days later in London. The letter is expected to be sold for between $50,000 and $70,000.
Another letter from Lennon was auctioned earlier on this year, it was a letter sent to Paul McCartney where Lennon voiced his frustrations over his former bandmate’s claims that Lennon wouldn’t cooperate when it came to ending the Beatles’ business ventures. McCartney told Melody Marker that, “We’d just sign the paper and hand it to the business people and let them sort it out, That’s all I want now, but John won’t do it. Everybody thinks I am the aggressor but I’m not, you know. I just want out.”
Lennon’s reply arrived four days later where he wrote, “No hard feelings to you either, I know we basically want the same thing, and as I said on the phone and in this letter, whenever you want to meet, all you have to do is call.” Other Beatles items currently at auction includes a tambourine owned by George Harrison, one of Lennon’s guitar picks, and various signed albums.
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