ALS signed “Jackie,” one page both sides, 5.75 x 7.75, Hyannis Port letterhead, no date but postmarked September 10, 1959. Letter to artist Franz Bueb, in part: "I was so sorry to send back your 2 pictures—& also not to have seen more of you at the dance—Jack doesn't like flowers much—& he said Alice was silly to get as all our rooms are white & we need something with color—But I love that drawing of her so much—I can't tell you the disappointment with which I relinquished it—It was the grandest wifely beau geste I have ever made—I hope you don't sell it too soon—as some day I want it & hope I will have it—So when people come to see your pictures please show it last of all! Please let me know your whereabouts this fall—especially when you will be in New York & Washington…Surely I will run into you in D.C.—Call Jean there (Mrs. Stephen Smith, O Street)." In fine condition. Accompanied by the original mailing envelope addressed by Kennedy, including her return address, "Mrs. John F. Kennedy, Hyannisport, Mass," on the flap. Bueb was a German-born artist who taught painting to Jacqueline Kennedy during the 1950s and 1960s. Bueb painted many portraits of the future first lady, as well as various landscapes of Chatsworth, England, the former home of John F. Kennedy’s late sister Kathleen.
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