British auction house Bonhams has announced that an old signed and handwritten letter penned by the late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, at the age of 19, will soon be auctioned.
And the official account of the auction house, on the “Instagram” website, published a picture of Steve Jobs’ letter, which is a one-page letter that Jobs wrote to his childhood friend Tim Brown, presenting Jobs’ ideas about Buddhism and his plans to travel to India to attend the event. Kumbh MelIt is a Hindu pilgrimage and religious festival.
Auction house Instagram account
British auction house Bonhams expects the letter to fetch between $200,000 and $300,000, according to Al Arabiya.
The letter is dated February 23, 1974, just a day before Jobs’ 19th birthday and more than two years before Jobs and Steve Wozniak co-founded Apple, and the auction house describes the collection as the first handwritten letter by Steve Jobs ever sold at auction..
Steve Jobs’ handwritten letter to his childhood friend
Jobs begins the letter by responding to some of Brown’s earlier correspondence, writing in lowercase: “I have read your letter many times / I don’t know what to say Days and nights have gone by / People have come and gone / I have loved and cried many times. / Somehow, though, Everything under it does not change – do you understand?”.