Collection of love letters written by Bob Dylan sells for 670,000 dollars

A collection of personal letters written by a young Bob Dylan to a high school girlfriend has been sold at auction (Nikki Brickett/RR Auction/the Estate of Barbara Hewitt via AP/PA)

A collection of personal letters written by a young Bob Dylan to a high school girlfriend has been sold at auction to a renowned Portuguese bookshop for nearly 670,000 dollars (£564,000).

The Livraria Lello in Porto, Portugal, which bills itself as “the world’s most beautiful bookshop”, plans to keep the archive of 42 handwritten letters totalling 150 pages complete and available for Dylan fans and scholars to study, auctioneer RR Auction in Boston, Massachusetts said.