love letters that Mick Jagger wrote in the summer of 1969

A series of love letters that Mick Jagger wrote in the summer of 1969 were sold at auction for £ 187,250 ($ 301,472). Handwritten notes were sent by the Rolling Stones singer to his former muse and lover Marsha Hunt, while he was in Australia working on the film Ned Kelly.

Hunt, a singer born in Philadelphia, which is considered as the inspiration for the Stones 1971 hit "Brown Sugar", asked Sotheby's to sell the letters in his name. "When a serious historian finally examines how and why British boy bands affected international culture and politics, this well-preserved collection of letters written by hand Mick Jagger will be a revelation," she said in a statement released by the house auction. The letters should reach a maximum bid of between $ 110,000 and $ 160,000. However, according to the Associated Press, a private collector snapped letters almost double the estimate auction.

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Sotheby books specialist Gabriel Heaton told the Associated Press that could make the letters so valuable to a collector: "They give a rare glimpse Jagger is very different from his public persona: passionate, but autonomous, lyrical, but with a strong sense of irony. "The letters, he said, showed" a poetic and self-conscious 25-year-old with broad intellectual interests and artistic. "Letters allegedly touching on everything from the moon landing to the excitement Jagger at the meeting writer Christopher Isherwood bomber to John Lennon and Yoko Ono, and also details the death of Brian Jones gossip.

Hunt, according to The Guardian, the letters sold to pay the electricity bill and fund repairs on his house. "I am broken," she said. "Whoever has the impression that I have money knows nothing about me." Hunt and Jagger have a daughter, Karis together.