(ANSA) - ROME, NOVEMBER 22 - The love letters that Bob Dylan wrote to his high school sweetheart were sold at auction for as much as 669,875 dollars (over 670,000 euros).
The lot consists of 42 letters written by Dylan - at the time Robert Zimmerman - to his high school sweetheart, Barbara Ann Hewitt: 150 pages compiled by the young musician and future Nobel Prize winner.
The "unprecedented" archive was sold by RR Auction, a Boston auction house specializing in one-of-a-kind memorabilia.
In 1958, the American media reported, Zimmerman was already dreaming of changing his name and selling a million records, aspirations that he shared with Hewitt in his letters.
He wrote about getting ready for the local talent show,
According to the auction house, the musician's fiancée, born in 1941, settled the family in Hibbing, Minnesota, in her early teens and that's where she later met Dylan during a high school history class.
The couple first met on New Year's Eve 1957. The two exchanged letters until at least the end of 1959. According to the auction house, Dylan's letters to Hewitt remained in his possession until her death in 2020. ( HANDLE).