A four-page handwritten letter from President John F. Kennedy to one of his alleged mistresses, Mary Pinchot Meyer, is among the items being auctioned by Boston-based RR Auction.
The letter to Meyer, a family friend and the wife of a CIA agent, is signed simply “J” and was likely written in October 1963, a month before the president was assassinated in Dallas.
“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,” JFK wrote. “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.”
The two met when Kennedy was in high school and became reacquainted in 1954 when Kennedy and wife Jackie lived near Meyer and her husband in D.C.
Meyer is said to have paid frequent visits to the White House when Jackie was not there.
According to the auction house, the letter was never sent but kept by Kennedy’s secretary Evelyn Lincoln.
Online bidding for this and other items begins June 16. Details are at www.rrauction.com.