ALS signed “Love xxx Lee,” one page, lightly-lined, 6 x 8, August 3, 1961. Letter to his mother in Texas. In full (spelling and punctuation uncorrected): “I recived your packet today thanks alot for all the nice things. You really should not have botherd to send those little things its so expensive I really now only need literature and every now and than some chewing gum like you sent me before. In the future please only send very light and nessicary things. I wrote Robert [brother] and he was surprised that you are working at Cromwell, Texas don’t you write at all to each other? We are getting ready to see you all, but it is along process especially for Marina [wife]. Well, that’s about all for now.” This letter was an official exhibit (No. 181) in the Warren Commission investigation into JFK’s assassination and, like most of the exhibits, is protectively and permanently soft-laminated. In fine condition, with scattered light creasing and wrinkling, and missing a corner tip to each page.
Oswald’s comment that “we are getting ready to see you all, but it is a long process especially for Marina” relates to his request of the US Embassy in the USSR to allow him and his pregnant bride, Marina, to reenter the United States. Oswald had been been working with officials to secure the necessary paperwork to achieve that goal, and it is clear here that he was more than ready to return to the US—a country he had openly turned his back on. That reunion would take ten more months, courtesy of slow-moving Russian and US officials. During that period, Oswald sent a series of letters to his mother—a dominating and quarrelsome individual who purportedly failed to show her son any affection...a trait that may have emotionally damaged Oswald. The Warren Commission used this correspondence in their determination of what drove the assassin to make his appearance on the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository that November afternoon. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RRAuction COA.
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