For Sale: John Lennon’s Holiday Card to Yoko Ono’s Ex
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During the holiday season of 1968, Yoko Ono’s second husband, Anthony Cox, received a card from Ono, then still his wife, and her boyfriend, John Lennon. In it, Lennon and Ono informed Cox that Ono had taken most of her things from her shared home with Cox—in other words, she was officially moving on with Lennon, whom she met in 1966. This card, not exactly full of holiday mirth, can now belong to a lucky Beatles fan for $15,000 via momentsintime.com.
Though that seems like a steep price for a Christmas card, the note does contain a bonus message for Cox, from Lennon. In a separate note written on Apple Records letterhead, Lennon asked Cox if he could send two of Ono’s short films and master tapes from a recent performance with jazz musician Ornette Coleman. “Also, we want to get on with producing Ornette-Yoko record under Apple before Easter. That will be very good,” he wrote.
The note is mostly addressed to Cox, but it does contain a small message to Ono’s daughter, Kyoko Chan Cox, who was 5 years old at the time and lived with her father. “Lots of love and kisses, John and Mommy,” the note reads, alongside a small sketch of Ono and a bespectacled Lennon.
This nearly 50-year-old holiday message marks an important time in history for Lennon and Ono, who married the following year just after Ono divorced from Cox. The two would go on to have their own son, Sean Lennon, who was born in October 1975, five years before his father’s death in December 1980.
This story originally appeared on Vanity Fair.
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