London Auction house, Christie’s, has sold a letter written by Paul McCartney in 1960 for £34,850 with BP ($55,412). The auction estimate was £7000~£9000.

The letter was to an unknown drummer who placed an advertisement looking work. Paul McCartney wrote a letter to the person and offered them an audition for “The Beatles“.

A telephone bidder from Europe bought the item dated August 12th, 1960. The letter was discovered inside a book bought in Liverpool by a coin collector.

Also sold at the Pop Culture: Rock and Pop Memorabilia auction, was a hand-written sign that John Lennon and Yoko Ono displayed during one of their bed-ins at the Queen Elizabeth hotel in Montreal in 1969 sold for £97,250.

*Photgraph ©Christie’s