A Scandalous Love Letter From JFK to His Mistress Has Been Unearthed
A juicy love letter from President John F. Kennedy to his alleged mistress, Mary Pinchot Meyer, has been resurfaced, and is expected to fetch more than $30,000 at auction. It might be one of the last letters President Kennedy ever wrote.
The letter was written around October 1963 and has the tops of White House stationery clipped off by his secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, but you can see the presidential watermarks when you put the papers under a bright light. The note reads in full:
“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. 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.”
According to RR Auction, President Kennedy was indeed in Boston on October 19, for a Democratic Party fundraiser. He was assassinated the following month, which means this letter was one of the last he ever wrote. But the letter was never sent, and it’s unclear why; it was kept by Lincoln instead.
Meyer first met Kennedy when he was in high school, and got back in touch when he and Jackie moved near her and her CIA-agent husband in 1954. She became friends with Jackie, but visited the White House all the time when she was out of town. Mysteriously, Meyer was murdered a year after President Kennedy’s assassination, and the case is still unsolved to this day.
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