Auction Date:2011 Oct 12 @ 18:00 (UTC-05:00 : 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
TLS as president, one page, 6.75 x 9, pale green White House letterhead, November 14, 1961. JFK writes New York Times journalist Arthur Krock following his obituary for Anthony J. Drexel Biddle, Jr., Kennedy’s ambassador to Spain. In full: “That was a beautifully written column this morning and unlike many things which are written about the dead, more than deserving.” Kennedy has crossed out the phrase “about the dead” and written “on these occasions”; and similarly crossed out “deserving” and penned “deserved.” Affixed to a slightly larger piece of black paper. In fine condition, with a couple of light bends and staple hole at the top left corner.
Krock was a well-respected writer considered the ‘Dean of Washington newsmen’ by his peers and those in public office, with President Kennedy among his admirers. One of his myriad of stories was the 1961 New York Times obituary he wrote for Biddle, a former US Army major general and diplomat who had mainly served in the 1930s and 1940s before JFK tapped him as US ambassador to Spain in 1961. In addition to having publicly paid tribute to Biddle, Kennedy privately expressed his admiration for the man in this letter to Krock, commending the journalist for a “more than deserving” tribute. Letters signed by Kennedy while in the White House are not common—even more so with handwritten editorial corrections.
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