Dear Paul: Lay off Yoko Lennon's angry letter to be auctioned

LONDON--An expletive-filled, handwritten letter drafted by JohnLennon to Paul McCartney and his wife, Linda, after the Beatles' 1970breakup is to be sold at auction.

The six-page draft--expected to fetch up to $112,000 when it goesunder the hammer at Christie's on Oct. 4--captures the bitternessbetween Lennon and the McCartneys during and immediately after therock group's demise, and Lennon's anger at their treatment of hiswife, Yoko Ono.

"I hope you realize what [expletive] you and the rest of my kindand unselfish friends laid on Yoko & me since we have been together--It might have sometimes been a bit more subtle or should I say'middle class'--but not often," …