Erotic Joyce love letter fetches £240k

An anonymous bidder paid £240,800 (€359,532) today for a raunchy letter written by the author James Joyce to his partner and lifelong love, Nora Barnacle, in 1909.

The explicit letter was the centrepiece of a Sotheby’s auction in London of Joyce articles that attracted worldwide interest when they went under the hammer. The successful bidder paid more than four times the expected price.