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Jackie Kennedy’s private letters to Irish priest and confidante up for auction

Jackie Kennedy’s private letters to Irish priest and confidante up for auction

Never-before-seen letters sent from Jacqueline Kennedy to an Irish priest have recently been discovered, and give a unique opportunity to peer into the past.

The letters, which will be auctioned off next month in Ireland by Sheppard’s Irish Auction House, document a 14-year time span that provides insight to her very private life.

Sent to Father Joseph Leonard between 1950 and 1964, the letters reveal experiences from young Jackie O’s days, including her courtship with the future president of the United States, John F. Kennedy.

Throughout the letters to the priest, she describes three pivotal moments in her life. However according to the Irish Times, permission was only given to print a few excerpts from the letters.

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In the first excerpt, she expressed worry to the priest that her future husband JFK might be “cut from the same cloth” as her father, John Vernou Bouvier:

"He’s like my father in a way — loves the chase and is bored with the conquest — and once married needs proof he’s still attractive, so flirts with other women and resents you. I saw how that nearly killed Mummy," she wrote, according to the Irish Times.

Kennedy also touched on feeling alone in her letters. Jackie’s glamorous lifestyle and being the wife of the American president, she felt the pang of loneliness:

“Maybe I’m just dazzled and picture myself in a glittering world of crowned heads and Men of Destiny — and not just a sad little housewife," she wrote in a 1953 letter to Father Leonard. "That world can be very glamorous from the outside — but if you’re in it — and you' re lonely – it could be a Hell."

In the third sample of Jackie's correspondence, she began to question God. The assassination of her beloved husband in 1963 was especially hard for Jackie. She was trying to find comfort in her Catholic faith, but she wrote to Father Leonard that she felt “bitter.” Even with her wavering faith in God, she wrote, “I have to think there is a God – or I have no hope of finding Jack again.”

The thirty-three letters written by the woman who captured the hearts of Americans is expected to sell next month for well over $1 million dollars.

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