A hand-written letter from Paul McCartney to the late Prince has just been sold at Boston-based RR Auction for $14,822, in which the former Beatle asks the “Purple Rain” star for a donation to fund the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts back in 1996.
“Dear Princely person,” the letter begins. “Hi there! I know how hard it is to always be getting letters that ask for some favour or another, so it was not easy for me to accept the job of Lead Patron for a Performing Arts School to be located in my home town, Liverpool. But, you guessed it! I did agree to do it, so now I’m writing to ‘friends and all good people’ to try and interest them in the scheme.”
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Added Sir Paul: “Hope you didn’t mind me writing this, it’s so long since I’ve written letters I feel like I’m back at school myself. Anyway, one of these days you’ll have to come and teach a class some moves!!”
Here’s a copy of the letter:
