Auction Date:2012 Feb 15 @ 18:00 (UTC-5 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
ALS, one page, 6 x 8.25, La Falconnerie letterhead. Written in Jacqueline Kennedy’s hand, she attempts to imitate the handwriting of a six-year-old John-John in a letter to his former nanny, Maud Shaw, with JFK Jr.’s young “John” signature at the conclusion. In full: “I hope to see you again shortly. My school is all right in Switzerland and my school is very nice in New York. I wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year & A Happy Easter and A Happy Thanksgiving.” Some scattered creasing and wrinkling, and some rough areas to the edges, otherwise fine condition.
Maud Shaw served as nanny to the young Kennedy children, and it was she who spirited Caroline and John, Jr. from the White House on the heels of their father’s assassination in 1963, taking them to the home of Janet Auchincloss, their maternal grandmother. Auchincloss urged Shaw to break the news of Kennedy’s death to young Caroline, an action that reportedly created a rift between the nanny and Mrs. Kennedy; in March of 1965, Jacqueline informed Shaw that her services would no longer be necessary. According to Clemens David Heyman’s book, Bobby and Jackie: A Love Story, Jackie confided to friend, Evangeline Bruce, that she felt the children had “outgrown Maud Shaw,” whom she admitted was good with younger children, but could not tend to their “present needs.” Written while vacationing in Gstaad, Switzerland in 1966, this is a unique and unusual bit of correspondence depicting one of the earliest JFK, Jr. signatures to be found. According to the consignor, the item originated from Shaw’s estate. Quite unusual to see Jackie and little John’s writing together on the same piece.
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