New JFK Love Letters Up for Auction

A series of just-released letters and telegrams from John F. Kennedy to a young Swedish woman named Gunilla von Post show the famously philandering president in a softer light. Von Post released a book discussing the affair in 1997, and now 11 letters and three telegrams shed further light on the star-crossed relationship that began when the pair met on the French Riviera in 1953, prior to Kennedy’s marriage to Jacqueline Bouvier. Von Post was only 21, Kennedy 36. The summer after his marriage, Kennedy wrote to von Post, “I might get a boat and sail around the Mediterranean for two weeks—with you as crew.” The letters are up for auction beginning today at LegendaryAuctions.com, where bidding starts of at $25,000 and are expected to go for at least $100,000.