Autumn 2020 Catalogue

37 American Heroes & Leaders Autumn 2020 “For Some Time I Have Wanted To Do Something To Perpetuate Joe’s Memory…” 36. KENNEDY, John F. Typed letter signed with autograph postscript. WITH: As We Remember Joe. Hyannisport and Cambridge, Massachusetts, October 6, 1944 / 1945. Single leaf of letterhead, measuring 7-1/4 by 10-1/2 inches; p. 1. Book: octavo, original maroon cloth, custom clamshell box. $25,000. Click for more info Exceptional typed letter by John F. Kennedy to a close family friend, Richard Flood, requesting that Flood write a short essay on Joe Kennedy for the tribute book, We Remember Joe, signed by JFK and with signed autograph postscript reading: “If you have any ideas on this—give me a call—Best Jack—Did [illegible] come through?” Together with a first edition, first issue copy of the book. The letter, typed on Hyannisport stationery to family friend Richard Flood (a Harvard friend and classmate of Joe and a longtime friend and political campaigner for Jack), reads in small part: “October 6, 1944. Dear Dick: For some time I have wanted to do something to perpetuate Joe’s memory among his immediate family and his close friends. I thought, perhaps, of getting together some essays, written by those who knew him well... As I know you were always a great friend of Joe’s and that he held you in very high regard, I was wondering if you would care to help out by writing one... Warmest regards. Very sincerely, [signed] Jack. [autograph postscript] If you have any ideas on this—give me a call—Best Jack—Did [illegible] come through?” These essays memorializing Kennedy’s brother Joe—including one by Flood—would later become We Remember Joe . With original Kennedy printed presentation mailing envelope for As We Remember Joe and a supplied first issue copy (not belonging to Flood) of the first edition of the book, one of 300 copies printed. Fine condition.