Letter John Lennon wrote to the Queen when he returned his MBE found in record sleeve and valued at £60,000
LONG-LOST letter John Lennon wrote to the Queen when he returned his MBE has been found in a record sleeve and valued at £60,000.
The November 1969 note is thought to be a draft of one sent by the late Beatle.
Signed with the name of Lennon’s PR firm Bag Production, the note was valued at a Beatles event in Liverpool yesterday.
The anonymous finder bought the record hiding the note at a car boot sale 20 years ago, and 'almost wet himself' with excitement when he learned of the rare note's value.
The letter was valued by auctioneer Darren Julian, who said he believed the draft correspondence with the Queen was discarded due to a smudged signature.
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Darren said: "We are stunned and shocked about the discovery – it's one of those finds that is almost too good to be true.
"We still have a lot of checks to do to find out the full history being it but the smudge on the signature would appear to suggest that it was written and then scrapped before Lennon wrote another one.
"The guy who brought it in was stunned when we told him it was possibly worth between £40,000 and £60,000 - he almost wet himself."
