A letter of apology written by George Harrison after two autograph-hunting schoolgirls got a distinctly unfriendly reception when they turned up on the doorstep of his home took £6100 at auction.
James Laverack of John Taylors (18% buyer’s premium) in Louth, Lincolnshire, said: “The find chronicles a tiff in which the Beatle found himself entangled soon after moving into Kinfauns, the bungalow that he had bought on the Claremont Park Estate at Esher in Surrey in 1964.