1964 Malcolm X letter up for sale for $1.25 million.

Sometimes what you go looking for isn't what you end up leaving with.

Found in a storage locker, a six-page handwritten letter from Malcolm X is up for sale for $1.25 million, according to the New York Post.

Written after his return from a pilgrimage to Mecca in 1964, the civil rights leader pondered the situation in America, and believed that the religion of Islam was the answer for a uneasy country.

"I very much doubt that 10 American citizens have ever visited Mecca, and I do believe that I might be the first American-born Negro to make the actual Hajj itself," Malcolm X writes. Considering that in the history of the Hajj hundreds of millions of Muslims have made the pilgrimage, Malcolm X might be underestimating by a slight margin--but his point is made.

And he sees racism plaguing the United States. "If white Americans could accept the religion of Islam...they, too, could then sincerely accept the Oneness of Men, and cease to measure others always in terms of their 'difference in color,' he wrote. "And with racism now plaguing America like an incurable cancer, all thinking Americans should be more respective to Islam as an already proven solution to the race problem."

The letter, being sold by a California memorabilia company called Moments in Time, was nearly thrown out. As the seller, Gary Zimet, told Page Six of the Post, “It was found in a storage locker and almost thrown out. [...] Only because the owner saw some Derek Jeter and Alex Rodriguez autographs was it saved.”

Priorities, people. Derek Jeter autographs were to be had!!