BOSTON – A letter written by President John F. Kennedy to a purported lover in an attempt to set up a liaison has sold at auction for almost $89,000, about triple what it was expected to fetch. Come and See Me: JFK letter (inset, top left) to supposed mistress Mary Pinchot Meyer (inset, bottom left) Photo collage courtesy of scoopnest.com Boston-based RR Auction says the four-page letter thought to have been written in October 1963 was sold Thursday to a buyer who wished to remain anonymous. The letter on White House stationery was intended for longtime Kennedy family friend Mary Pinchot Meyer, an artist and former wife of a CIA agent. It’s signed “J.” The note was never sent but remained in the collection of Kennedy’s longtime personal secretary, Evelyn Lincoln. Pinchot Meyer died nearly a year after Kennedy’s assassination. Several other Kennedy-related items were also sold, including a rocking [...]
