A handwritten love letter from President John F. Kennedy to one of his alleged mistresses is up for sale by RR Auction in Boston. The four-page letter was written weeks before Kennedy’s assassination in 1963 and is believed to be intended for Mary Meyer. The love note, however, was never delivered, according to Bobby Livingston, executive vice president of the auction house. In the intimate letter, Kennedy pleads with the recipient to come and see him, giving his love interest three venue options: here (believed to be the White House), the Kennedy Compound in Cape Cod, or a third, unnamed location in Boston.
I KNOW IT IS UNWISE
“Why don’t you leave suburbia for once — come and see me — either here — or at the Cape next week or in Boston the 19th,” the handwritten letter reads. “I know it is unwise, irrational, and that you may hate it — on the other hand you may not — and I will love it. You say that it is good for me not to get what I want. After all of these years — you should give me a more loving answer than that. Why don’t you just say yes?” Livingston said he expects the bidding to top $30,000 by the time the auction closes on June 23. Other Kennedy items are also up for sale, including other letters and photographs.
