Sheppard’s Irish Auction House in County Laois, Ireland, estimated the correspondence between the wife of assassinated U.S. president John F. Kennedy to Father Joseph Leonard in the 1950s and ’60s could sell for up to $1.6 million.
The reason for the withdrawal was not disclosed.
Mrs. Kennedy wrote the letters over a 14-year period, during which time she was First Lady, and after her husband was assassinated. She began corresponding with Father Leonard after meeting him on a trip to Ireland. The priest died in 1964.
The letters were discovered this year at All Hallows College in Dublin. The college is under directions of the Vincentians, a Roman Catholic order of priests, of which Father Leonard was a member.
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