The Beatles reading fan mail, Green Street, London, 9 October 1963. Photo © The Beatles Book.&l

The Beatles reading fan mail, Green Street, London, 9 October 1963. Photo © The Beatles Book.

“I’d like to say thank you to all the Beatle people who have written to me during the year and everybody who sent gifts and cards for my birthday, which I’m trying to forget, in October. I’d love to reply personally to everybody but I just haven’t enough pens.” - John Lennon, The Beatles Christmas Record (1963)