Jerry Garcia love letters heading to auction block

Two love letters penned by late rocker Jerry Garcia to a model he met in the 1980s are heading to the auction block. The Grateful Dead frontman befriended the woman, whose identity has not been released, at a party in 1980 after performing a mini-residency at New York’s Radio City Music Hall.
They became friends and in one note, a shy Garcia revealed he had been waiting for the “right opportunity” for the pair to meet up again “in some kind of neutral context that would be comfortable and relaxed and free of any pressure”.
The message also included a phone number and a sketch of the band onstage.
A follow up letter was written on stationery from the Le Parker Meridien hotel in Manhattan.
The model, who is selling the correspondence to pay for medical bills, tells the New York Post’s Page Six column, “He was a person who you felt you knew. Very easy to be with.”
The notes are expected to fetch between $10,000 (£6,250) and $15,000 (£9,375) when they go under the hammer at RR Auctions in New Hampshire.
Auction boss Bobby Livingston says, “It’s eight handwritten pages from one of the true icons of the 1960s, and from an incredible, important artist as important to today’s music as someone like Bob Dylan.”
The cult star, who had battled drug and weight issues for years, suffered a fatal heart attack while in rehab in 1995, just eight days before his 53rd birthday.
The Grateful Dead disbanded shortly afterwards.