1969 Love Letters from Mick Jagger sell at Auction for $300,000

Back in 1969 Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger wrote a series of love letters to his lover Marsha Hunt. The previously unseen letters sold at auction this week for just over $300,000, twice as much as the expected price.
Hunt, who is reportedly the inspiration for the Stones classic Brown Sugar, gave the letters to Sotheby’s to sell for her along with the statement, “When a serious historian finally examines how and why Britain’s boy bands affected international culture and politics, this well-preserved collection of Mick Jagger’s handwritten letters will be a revelation.”
The letters reportedly touch on everything from Jagger’s views on the moon landing to gossip about John Lennon and Yoko Ono and according to book specialist Gabriel Heaton reveal a very different side of Jagger from his flamboyant public persona. “The letters reveal a poetic and self-aware 25 year-old with wide ranging intellectual and artistic interests,” he said.