Auction Date:2012 Aug 15 @ 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 signed “Jack,” one page, 6.25 x 8.25, United States Senate letterhead, June 7, 1957. Letter to Margaret Coit at Farleigh Dickinson University. In full: “It was very good of you to send congratulations upon the award of the Pulitzer Prize to ‘Profiles in Courage.’ Needless to say, I was most gratified by the announcement; and the pleasure of it all was heightened by the generous messages I received from you and other friends. Thanks for thinking of me—but don’t count on a repeat performance.” Kennedy also adds a brief postscript reading, “When are we going to meet again?” and crosses out the formal greeting to read “Margaret.” Double matted and framed with a photo of Kennedy surrounded by an adoring crowd to an overall size of 20.5 x 15. In fine condition, with a few small light stains to left edge.
While interviewing various politicians for her book on Bernard Baruch, Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Margaret Coit set her sights on the young Senator John F. Kennedy: “Every girl in Massachusetts wanted to date him,” she said, “and I wasn’t any exception.” Though he had no connection with Baruch, Coit concocted a reason to interview Kennedy and the two met for the first time in the spring of 1953, sparking a brief romance driven by their mutual physical and intellectual attraction. On one of their first dates, Kennedy expressed awe at the fact that she had won a Pulitzer, remarking, “You know, I would rather win a Pulitzer Prize than be president of the United States.” The relationship ended as quickly as it began, and the two had lost touch by the time Kennedy achieved this goal, but Coit re-established contact with a congratulatory note upon hearing the news. The handwritten postscript, perhaps added with a hint of flirtation, resulted in a public reunion of the two Pulitzer Prize winners in the fall of 1958. This is a charming letter from the future president and notorious ladies’ man to a past fling, a celebrity in her own right.
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