The 10 handwritten notes had been expected to fetch between £70,000 and £100,000 when they were sold in London on 12.12.12 but auctioneers Sotheby`s said a private collector bidding by phone wanted to pay the high price.
The letters were written by the 69-year-old rocker in 1969 from the Australian set of his movie `Ned Kelly` and were sent to his former girlfriend Marsha Hunt, the mother of his first child Karis and inspiration behind The Rolling Stones` hit single `Brown Sugar`.
Marsha, 66, has previously revealed the correspondence chronicles their "delicate love affair" and they discuss topical subjects of the moment like the first moon landing and John Lennon and Yoko Ono`s relationship.
Sotheby`s books specialist Gabriel Heaton said the collection - which also included song lyrics and a Rolling Stones playlist - show a "poetic and self-aware" young Mick.
He added: "They provide a rare glimpse of Jagger that is very different from his public persona: passionate but self-contained, lyrical but with a strong sense of irony."
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