The personal belongings of prominent artists are always intriguing to their fans. So, it is common to see them sold at auctions for high prices, as they mean so much to people who admire these artists. As a notable and greatly-appreciated musician, Bob Dylan’s love letters that he wrote his high school girlfriend have been sold at auction for nearly $670,000.
The music icon, then known as Bob Zimmerman, wrote these personal letters to Barbara Ann Hewitt, with whom he had been in a romantic relationship between 1957 and 1959 in Minnesota. The touching pieces of 150 pages reveal some unknown aspects of Dylan’s life.
In some of his notes, the young Bob Dylan talks about his dreams of changing his name, being famous, and selling a million records someday. Strikingly, the musician would have achieved much more than he had imagined decades later. Bob also writes about his never-ending affection for his high school sweetheart in the letters. He sends Hewitt some pieces of poetry and invites her to meet him.
Following Hewitt’s passing in 2020, his daughter found Dylan’s original letters, and she decided to sell them at an auction. They were sold to a renowned Portuguese bookshop, The Livraria Lello, for approximately $670,000. The bookshop plans to keep the letters available for Dylan fans and scholars to study. Besides those notes, his early collection of poems and one of the earliest known signed photographs were also sold at the auction.
