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LONDON, July 8 (UPI) -- An anonymous bidder at Sotheby's auction in London Thursday paid about $450,000 for an erotic letter author James Joyce wrote in 1909 to his wife.
The letter addressed to Nora Barnacle made the highest price ever reached for a 20th Century autographed letter, the BBC reported quoting the auction house. The letter was expected to fetch only about $110,000.
In the letter, Joyce had described Nora as a "wild-eyed whore."
The sexually explicit letter is said to be remarkable because of Joyce's hatred of obscene jokes and swearing, BBC said.
It was written after Joyce's return to Dublin without Nora for the first time since the couple's elopement from Dublin to Trieste, Italy five years earlier.
"It was their relationship that was the source of so much of Joyce's creativity, and this is clearly evident throughout Joyce's work - especially in (his novel) Ulysses," a Sotheby's official said.
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