 | Lennon was 12 when he copied The Walrus and the Carpenter 
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A John Lennon schoolbook containing an illustration of a walrus has been sold at auction for �126,500. Featuring the 12-year-old Lennon's drawing of Lewis Carroll's poem The Walrus and the Carpenter, the book had been expected to reach up to �150,000.
The poem inspired Lennon to write The Beatles' 1967 song I Am the Walrus.
The book of the late Beatle's early thoughts, drawings and poems, was sold to a private collector in an auction of pop memorabilia in London.
A ship's log book written by Lennon during a stormy trip to Bermuda in 1980 fetched �12,000, half its highest valuation.
 John Lennon came from a seafaring family |
The log contains an account of the musician screaming against the tempest and singing old Liverpool shanty songs while steering the ship. Lennon credited the voyage with helping him overcome writer's block - he went on to write the album Double Fantasy.
The Beatle's engraved silver christening bracelet, the earliest known piece of his memorabilia, went for �27,000 at the sale at Madame Tussaud's.
And a letter from Paul McCartney to his bandmates Lennon, George Harrison and Ringo Starr failed to reach its �50,000 reserve price.
Some experts believe the letter, linked to a dispute between McCartney and the others over who would manage the group, was the final nail in The Beatles' coffin.
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