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ALS signed “Jackie,” penned in black ballpoint on both sides of a black-bordered 5.25 x 3.75 stationery card embossed with the Kennedy coat of arms, December 5, 1965. Handwritten letter to award-winning lyricist and librettist Alan Jay Lerner, in full: “Thank you for the pretty flowers, & thank you for breaking the language barrier, & all the others that the ‘mixed bag’ involved. Now that it’s over, I think my dinner was nice, but that is because you were there & helped me make it all work out.” In fine condition. Accompanied by the original mailing envelope hand-addressed from Jackie Kennedy, who writes “By Hand” in the lower right corner, and adds her signature to the upper right, “Jacqueline Kennedy.”
A delightful association piece that evokes memories of the Kennedy White House and the classic 1960 Lerner-and-Loewe musical, Camelot. A week after the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy in November 1963, Kennedy's widow, Jackie Kennedy, was interviewed by Theodore H. White, an interview that ran in the December 1963 issue of Life magazine. In the interview, Jackie stated that the show's original cast recording had been a favorite bedtime listening for her husband (who had been Lerner's classmate at Harvard University), and that his favorite lines were in the final number: ‘Don't let it be forgot / That once there was a spot / For one brief, shining moment / That was known as Camelot.’ She also made a direct comparison to the Camelot storyline, saying, ‘There'll be great presidents again… but there'll never be another Camelot.’
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