KENNEDY ONASSIS, Jacqueline (1929-1994). Autograph manuscript signed ("Me"), n.p., April 1941. One page, 265 x 200mm, 13 lines in blue ink, faint pencil rulings, illustrated with a pen sketch with pencil coloring (c.92 x c.87mm) and further marginal decoration in pen and pencil. Framed. The earliest known Jacqueline Kennedy manuscript in private hands, a 1941 a poem written at age eleven. The three-stanza poem, entitled, "The East River," is headed with an idyllic scene of a young woman (a self-portrait?) catching the breeze beside the East River with the 59th Street Bridge and a tugboat towing a garbage scow in the background. Her impressions of the scene would still resonate with today's visitor to the Upper East Side: "Cool air in my face / Breezes sweep through me / The river[']s swift pace / A challenge to me / the seagulls harsh cry / Salt tang in the air / Green river – gray sky / Rocks jutting out there / Waves splashing up spray / On the dull gray rocks / garbage drifting away / Past the ancient docks."
KENNEDY ONASSIS, Jacqueline (1929-1994). Autograph manuscript signed ("Me"), n.p., April 1941. One page, 265 x 200mm, 13 lines in blue ink, faint pencil rulings, illustrated with a pen sketch with pencil coloring (c.92 x c.87mm) and further marginal decoration in pen and pencil. Framed. The earliest known Jacqueline Kennedy manuscript in private hands, a 1941 a poem written at age eleven. The three-stanza poem, entitled, "The East River," is headed with an idyllic scene of a young woman (a self-portrait?) catching the breeze beside the East River with the 59th Street Bridge and a tugboat towing a garbage scow in the background. Her impressions of the scene would still resonate with today's visitor to the Upper East Side: "Cool air in my face / Breezes sweep through me / The river[']s swift pace / A challenge to me / the seagulls harsh cry / Salt tang in the air / Green river – gray sky / Rocks jutting out there / Waves splashing up spray / On the dull gray rocks / garbage drifting away / Past the ancient docks."
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