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Lot #85
Jacqueline Kennedy

In the year of JFK’s election, Jackie jealousy guards her family’s privacy: “I wish I could [do] something to help George Washington in some other way…If I start writing stories about our life then it won’t be the private life I try to keep it!”

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In the year of JFK’s election, Jackie jealousy guards her family’s privacy: “I wish I could [do] something to help George Washington in some other way…If I start writing stories about our life then it won’t be the private life I try to keep it!”

ALS, one page both sides, 6.5 x 8.5, personal letterhead, no date [but January 1960]. Jackie politely turns down an offer to write for her university’s alumni magazine. In full: “Thank you so much for asking me to write an article for the new Alumni Review—I wish I could something [sic] to help George Washington in some other way—as I have such interest in it—but I would really rather not write anything—One has to give enough interviews as it is and if I start writing stories about our life then it won’t be the private life I try to keep it! I’m sure you understand—I do appreciate your interest and wish you every success.” Accompanied by unsigned carbon copies of two letters dated January 18 and January 28, 1960, from the Alumni Review to Jackie, related to the original request and Jackie’s refusal. In fine condition, with usual mailing fold (through signature), light corner bends, and staple holes at upper left. R&R COA.

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