On April 6, 1926, Mahatma Gandhi wrote a letter in which he called Jesus Christ “one of the great teachers of mankind.” The rare letter has found a buyer, who paid $50,000 to acquire it, according to the Pennsylvania-based Raab Collection, which said that the letter has been in a private collection for half a century.
The name of the buyer has not been disclosed.
The typed document, which bears Gandhi’s handwritten signature, “is the embodiment of Gandhi’s vision for a world of religions at peace. His belief in Jesus as a teacher of mankind shows his efforts to find commonality with his fellow man,” said Nathan Raab, principal at the Raab Collection.