Eric Clapton’s Letters to Pattie Boyd amid Love Triangle with George Harrison to Be Auctioned: ‘My Love Is Yours’

Boyd is auctioning the letters and several other personal items in collaboration with Christie's in March

The love letters of Eric Clapton and Pattie Boyd written around the time of their love triangle with The Beatles’ George Harrison are set to be sold in an upcoming auction.

Two letters penned by Clapton, 78, to Boyd, 79, are among several personal items from the model icon being auctioned by Christie's next month, offering an unprecedented look into the beginnings of their romance.

In one of the letters, which was dated four years into Boyd’s marriage to Harrison in 1970, Clapton questions Boyd about her love for her husband as he also asks her how she feels about him.

"I am writing this letter to you, with the main purpose of ascertaining your feelings towards a subject well known to both of us," he wrote. "What I wish to ask you is if you still love your husband? All these questions are very impertinent, I know, but if there is still a feeling in your heart for me… you must let me know!"

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"Don't telephone! Send a letter ... That is much safer," Clapton insisted, while signing off. “Please do this, whatever it may say, my mind will be at rest.”

In the second letter, which Clapton wrote on a torn page from the John Steinbeck novel Of Mice and Men, he asks for more clarity from Boyd on where she stands with him as he refers to her by the nickname Layla — which later inspired his 1970 song “Layla” penned in dedication to her.

"Dear Layla," Clapton began in the letter. "Why do you hesitate, am I a poor lover, am I ugly, am I too weak, too strong, do you know why? If you want me, take me, I am yours … if you don't want me, please break the spell that binds me. To cage a wild animal is a sin, to tame him is divine. My love is yours.”

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Boyd met Harrison on the set of her first film A Hard Day’s Night in 1964. The pair tied the knot at a London Registry office on Jan. 21, 1966. According to her 2020 memoir Pattie Boyd: My Life in Pictures, Boyd first took notice of her husband’s best friend, Clapton, soon after amid problems in their marriage.

As the pair grew close, Clapton wrote several love letters to Boyd. She eventually left Harrison for Clapton in 1974 and the pair married in 1979. The trio remained friends up until Harrison’s death in November 2001.

Speaking on the letters from Clapton now up for auction, Boyd said she initially thought they were from a “weird fan.”

“I had no idea it was from Eric,” she said, per Christie’s. “I even showed it to George! … I have kept the letter ever since in a little box filled with trinkets and things, and when I was writing my autobiography, Wonderful Today, I brought it out.”

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Among the other items included in the upcoming auction are photos of Boyd and Harrison together, and letters from Harrison to his former wife. There is also the painting ‘La Jeune Fille au Bouquet,’ by Emile Théodore Frandsen de Schomberg, which Clapton gifted to Harrison after his split from Boyd.

The Pattie Boyd Collection is being auctioned online by Christie’s from March 8—21. The public auction view takes place at Christie’s in London from March 15—22.

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