^Lot 76 Jacqueline Kennedy

TLS signed “Jacqueline Onassis,” one page, 8.5 x 11, Doubleday letterhead, April 23, 1981. Letter to an aspiring author. In full: “Your notebook on le hameau de Marie Antoinette is enchanting. You have done so much marvellous research. The trouble is that such a book would be enormously expensive to do. One would need the co-operation of Versailles, a photographer to take exciting new photographs, etc. And then Doubleday doesn’t feel that there would be a large enough audience to justify the expense of such a book. As you perhaps know, beautifully illustrated books are the first casualties in this very difficult time in the publishing business, when everyone is retrenching. It could be a marvelous book and I hope you can make it happen at a house that would welcome it. Why don’t you try Rizzoli or Harry Abrams? They do books like that much more than Doubleday does. Thank you for sending it to me and for the great pleasure I had in reading your proposal. I wish you the very best of luck.” In fine condition, with a bit of light edge toning and creasing.