Typed missive,sold at Sotheby’s auction to private Chinese collector, was written to then Labour leader in 1937One of the first letters sent by the Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong to any western leader, and a plea for befriend sent to Clement Attlee as head of the Labour party,has sold at auction for £605000, more than four times the highest pre-sale estimate.
After a flurry of bids in the Sotheby’s saleroom and on the phone, or the letter – written in a remote province in north-west China in November 1937,four months after the Japanese invasion was sold to a private Chinese collector.
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Source: theguardian.com