John Lennon
A handwritten draft of a letter from John Lennon to Tariq Ali [n.d. but circa 1968], the letter written in black ink on a sheet of lined paper, the letter addressed Dear Tariq + Robin [Blackburn] and beginning After a few months thought, talk with you and without you. After carefully trying to read your paper - which as far as we can see can never have anything but a limited intellectual appeal to a few students, we've decided it would be a complete waste of money to cough up 15,000 to print even more words..., Lennon continues We are still going ahead with the Foundation idea by ourselves and then scores out a line obviously it will be completely controlled by us in some way, with an annotation in the margin might be dangerous to write this, Lennon then continues We enjoyed meeting you and Robin and found it quite interesting but our primary concern must inevitably be to revolutionize thru art. Maybe in certain circumstances there would be a reason for J + Y Freedom Fund to allocate money to your group in the future, one never knows. We're sending a copy of this to Robin so as you'll both be able to compare notes, signed love John and with a postcript PS never talk in front of the chauffeurs - it's a typical middle class mistake!; accompanied by a transcript of the letter
12½x8in. (31.5x20cm.)

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