Sold – After Her Husband’s Assassination, Jacqueline Kennedy’s Grief is “Almost Unbearable”

Autograph Letter Signed on her monogrammed letterhead, New York, October 21, 1964, to Clifton. “You worked so hard on the President’s cufflinks – first for him and then for me. I feel so badly now that they will never be given – But I know you must understand why it is almost unbearable to think of giving them now. I hope you will keep a set – and be the only one to wear them – as you did all the work on that touching idea of his – as you did with George Washington’s sword and the Medal of Freedom. All the finest things were the ones you worked on. I will never forget all your help to me during the past yesr – everything from my household to the deer. Thank you so much for all the complicated work you have just done with them. Dear Ted, it has meant so much to know of your devotion. President Kennedy loved you so much. Please if you are ever in New York come and see us. With deepest appreciation always, Jackie.” The original envelope in her hand is still present. As for the deer reference, Mrs. Kennedy was an animal lover her whole life, and she instilled the same values in her children. In fact, her children helped care for as many as 32 pets while in the White House, including two deer.