By Charlie Coë For Daily Mail Australia
Published: 00:27 GMT, 26 March 2019 | Updated: 00:27 GMT, 26 March 2019
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The identity of a buyer who paid $14,000 for a letter written by former AC/DC frontman Bon Scott last month has so far been unknown.
But it has now been revealed the 1978 letter - which details his heavy drinking just two years before he died from alcohol poisoning - has been bought by the Western Australia government.
The play-hard rocker started his fledgling music career in Perth in the 1960s before eventually joining the now-iconic Sydney group.
Uncovered: The identity of a buyer who paid $14,000 for a letter written by former AC/DC frontman Bon Scott (pictured) last month has so far been unknown
It details Bon's heavy drinking, his wishes to go home to his mother and how he thought he should be checked 'into a sanitarium for a month'.
The letter is currently being displayed in the WA State Library, and local expert Adam Trainer told PerthNow the letter was a key part
