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LENNON JOHN: (1940-1980) English Musician, a member of The Beatles. Autograph Document, unsigned, one page, oblong 8vo, n.p. (New York), n.d. (1979-80), to Fred [Seaman]. The holograph document, on a feint ruled yellow sheet, is a 'to do' list prepared by Lennon for Seaman, headed F.S. and comprising eleven points, in full, '(1) What was the result of taking Y's spoiled blouse to cleaners? (2) Why not? (3) Chicken (4) Strawberries Peas →→(5) Spinach (6) Carrots (Better Nature has some good organic ones) * (7) Apples (?) Blueberries (8) Try not to leave letters & mags in office all day/everyday. (9) Billy Graham (new book on him) (10) Get some nice white flowers and put on Y's desk (in vase) from 'Daddy & Sean' (11) I (one) yogurt (plain) *' To the verso Lennon has penned Seaman's name 'FRED' twice, enclosing each in a square box. An interesting document from Lennon's later life when he was living, largely as a recluse, in the Dakota Apartments on Manhattan's West Side. when A few small staple holes to the edges and some extremely minor, light creasing, otherwise VG Fred Seaman, a young New Yorker, worked for Lennon as his assistant during much of 1979 and 1980. Lennon had been attracted by his name for Lennon's father, Freddie, had been a seaman. The present document is apparently unpublished and does not appear in The John Lennon Letters edited by Hunter Davies (2012).