Bob Dylan's teenage love letters promote for over $650,000 at public sale

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Bob Dylan’s teenage love letters offered for a whopping $669,875 on Friday.

The lot consists of 42 letters written by Dylan – then Robert Zimmerman – to his highschool sweetheart, Barbara Ann Hewitt. The letters span 150 pages hand-written by the younger musician.

The “unprecedented archive” was offered by RR Public sale, a Boston-based public sale home specializing in distinctive memorabilia.

In 1958, Zimmerman was already dreaming of adjusting his title and promoting 1,000,000 information, aspirations he shared with Hewitt in his missives. He wrote about making ready for the native expertise present, shared quick items of poetry, and regularly professed his affections for Hewitt, in keeping with RR Public sale.

The lot additionally features a signed Valentine’s Day card from Dylan and an unsigned handwritten notice.

Hewitt, born in 1941, settled together with her household in Hibbing, Minnesota, throughout her early teenage years, in keeping with RR Public sale. It was there that she met Dylan in highschool historical past class.

The couple’s first date was on New 12 months’s Eve in 1957, in keeping with RR Public sale. They exchanged letters till at the least the top of 1959. Hewitt’s letters from Dylan remained in her possession till her loss of life in 2020, the public sale home stated.