Lot 74
Jacqueline Kennedy
Opening: $200
Estimate: $400 - $600
TLS signed “Jackie,” one page, 5.5 x 8.5, The Viking Press, Inc. Publishers letterhead, October 26, 1976. Letter to Leslie Tillett, in full: "Many thanks for your letter. Yes, please send the books on Pre-Columbian patterns and on Navaho sand paintings—I'll be happy to take a look at them." In fine condition. After her husband's assassination, Jackie married Aristotle Onassis and went to work as a book editor, first at Viking Press and then at Doubleday Publishing House.
Leslie and D. D. Tillett were a mid-20th-century husband-and-wife artist/design team best known for their innovative, hand-printed custom textiles and fabrics.