Auction Date:2010 Apr 14 @ 10:00 (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.
Coit was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for biography in 1951 for her work on John C. Calhoun, and obviously sent a congratulatory message to then-Senator Kennedy as he was welcomed into that literary fraternity a few years later. Coit and JFK first met each other in 1953 during a party arranged by Bernard Baruch, on whom she was writing a biography. Coit later recalled how she “had designs on John F. Kennedy” and dressed “so he got the idea right away,” the senator had ideas of his own—lunging at the writer. Apparently sufficient years had passed and Coit was willing to re-establish contact, though one must wonder what thoughts rushed through her head—or Kennedy’s for that matter—upon seeing the handwritten inquiry of “When are we going to meet again?” An innuendo-laced note from one Pulitzer Prize winner to another. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RRAuction COA.
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