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THE "CHICKEN COUP COTTAGE" LETTER


Sander's Price Guide to Autographs, (7th Edition) lists (ALS) by
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis at $1700.00
-- LISTED HERE FOR HALF THE PRICE!


You are bidding a letter from Jacqueline Onassis to "Lee" [Barrett] at Keith Irvine at 121 East 71st St. NYC.   Letter is on Jackie's blue personal stationary (Letter back to back two pages)  and has her address 1040 Fifth Avenue [Book has Photo of Jackie's apartment] in white ink print.  I have shot the letter and it is on a bluish paper.  Slight smudge from tissue paper from inside envelope.  Lee is Lee Onthank Barrett and it is regarding a quilt she's looking to give to Mrs. Mellon for Christmas. [Bunny Mellon was Jackie's landlord in Virginia] Comes with COA from JG Autographs a top seller on EBAY.   Envelope may have Jackie's DNA if she sealed envelope.   Seal is still close.  Inside of the envelope bluish color, which came from the tissue paper inside the envelope.  Chippy and Keith Irvine wrote on pages 232-233 that Keith was contacted by Jackie's assistant Nancy Tuckerman and when she "(called again!), to say "Go ahead," this time  I asked, "Where do the bills go?"  She said, "Oh send them to Olympic Airlines," [c/o A. Onassis].  Irvine goes on that Jackie "adored Lee Barrett..."  A signed letter lists for over 1700.00 in Sander's Price Guide to Autographs.

Jackie is interested in getting a quilt made for Rachel "Bunny" Mellon, where she lived on their estate riding her horses.  See biography below of Bunny Mellon.   In looking at the envelope one can see that when Jackie sealed envelope and it is separate from the blue ink inside the envelope was also left on her letter and is not the ink
 from her ball point pen.
 

2). You are also getting the book by CHIPPY and KEITH IRVINE's book A Life in Decoration, a table top book comes with winning bid, printed by The Monacelli Press, published 2005.    One chapter devoted to Jackie Iconic Mother, and Myth.  There are about twelve pages earmarked folded over at the top.  Book is slightly worn. 


On page, 37 Keith Irvine (From Scotland) wrote that he worked on Joan and Ted Kennedy's home with Tom Fleming, "and my beloved assistant the late Lee Barrett...on page 40; "  Jackie Kennedy, when she first suggested I take on the job, told me, "this is not just one project.  This is for life."  Over the years, "we have helped the Shrivers, Stephen Smith, and the late Mrs. Onassis...I would decorate a Boston apartment for Joan Kennedy after her divorce."  Photo of Joan with arms around Irvine.  A Wikipedia search will turn up a list of Keith Irvine's clients, William F. Buckley, Jr. Duke and Duchess of Windsor and Serge Obolensky.  Ties to George de Mohrenschildt.   Book has many of color photographs of Keith Irvine's work.  There are several chapters in the book devoted to 1). Jacqueline Kennedy and 2). Ted and Joan Kennedy.  Jackie's favorite employee was Lee Barrett. 

On pages 230-231, Chippy and Keith write that when JFK was running for president he was working for the Kennedy's, yet when elected he was not working for them. ...After JFK's demise Jackie moved into the Harriman's Georgetown house. 

Biography of Lee Onthank Barrett :

Lee (Onthank) Barrett of Dover, an artist and interior designer, died Monday of complications from breast cancer in Brigham and Women's Hospital. She was 52.
Born in Boston, Mrs. Barrett was raised in Townsend and Andover. She graduated from Beaver Country Day School and Boston University.After graduation, she moved to New York City, where she was an interior designer with Keith Irvine and Thomas Fleming Inc.

Lee Barrett died a week after Jacqueline Kennedy.

Lee Barrett, 52 Dover artist, interior designer; Jackie was extremely fond of Lee so wrote the Irvine's.  

RACHEL BUNNY MELLON -------- }  BIOGRAPHY

Rachel Lowe Lambert Lloyd Mellon (August 9, 1910 – March 17, 2014), often known as Bunny Mellon, was an American horticulturalist, gardener, philanthropist, and art collector. She designed and planted a number of significant gardens, including the White House Rose Garden, and assembled one of the largest collections of rare horticultural books. Mellon was the second wife of philanthropist and horse breeder Paul Mellon.

Mellon designed landscapes for many of the Mellons' properties, including the French-inspired gardens of their estate, Oak Spring Farms.[10][17] A longtime friendship with the Kennedy family was initiated by a 1950s visit to Oak Spring Farms by Jacqueline Kennedy, whom Mellon later advised on fine arts and antiques during the Kennedy White House restoration.[10][18]

In 1961, President John F. Kennedy asked Mellon to redesign the White House Rose Garden. Mellon created more open space for public ceremonies and introduced American species of plants, as well as Magnolia soulangeana. She next began to work on the White House's East Garden, but her work was interrupted by Kennedy's assassination.  After his funeral, for which Mellon arranged flowers, Lady Bird Johnson asked Mellon to resume her work on the White House grounds.[18][19]

Chippy and Keith Irvine wrote in the above book on page 233: "Our last project for Mrs. Onassis was a tiny lodge on the Mellon estate in Upperville, Virginia, where she kept her horses.  Richard Keith Langhand and I worked together on this simple little cottage, and Jackie always referred to it as "the chicken coup.Irvine's Book has Photo of Jackie's Chicken Coup.  So one can see what Jackie's apartment looked like and where she lived when riding horses in Virginia

After Jacqueline Kennedy left the White House, Mellon was asked to design landscapes for Kennedy's home in Martha's Vineyard, the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, and River Farm, the headquarters of the American Horticultural Society.[17] In France, Mellon created a landscape design for the home of Hubert de Givenchy and assisted with a restoration of the potager du Roi in Versailles.[10][17]

3). TWO Photographs by Peter Warrick comes with COA:  See photo second from left above.

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (July 28, 1929 – May 19, 1994), John Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. (November 25, 1960 – July 16, 1999) and Caroline Kennedy (born November 27, 1957), original 4 x 6 vintage candid snapshot by celebrity photographer Peter Warrick. Printed by Warrick as part of his personal archive. Previously unpublished.

In his early 20's, Peter Warrick lived in London, Rome, and Athens working for entertainment magazines and writing articles about events that he attended, like the Cannes Film Festival. It was during this period of time that his interest in photography began to develop. Over the years, Peter began to amass a very extensive collection of photographs of people he met. He attended many events and met many famed individuals of the time. He always took the time to research people before meeting them and was able to talk with them about their careers, their travels and even their families. This impressed them and they felt comfortable in his company; many became personal friends over the years. Their comfort level always translated into the way he captured the personality of those individuals, as he would engage them in easy, friendly conversation while taking candid photos. Until now his personal collection and archive has been completely unpublished.

Verso bears official "Peter Warrick Archive" ink stamping. Verso may also show light remains from previous mounting. In very good condition.

4). Also you are getting an autographed copy of In My Own Fashion, by Oleg Cassini, Jackie's exclusive dress designer.  Oleg Cassini a clothing designer whose company was worth a billion dollars at the end of his life.  See photographs above.

5). Also the signature of Pascal Cantona, (photo of signature X-mas time 2001), Pascal created the Jackie look in early 1960s.  He is photographed above with Hillary Clinton.  Who may become the first woman President. Pascal's card is signed in his hand for the Holiday season of 2001-2002 and a photo copy of a letter he wrote on his clients.  Pascal worked at PERS of Georgetown, and I have a May 4, 1960 receipt from PERS for "Kennedy" and the total bill was for $10.74. 

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B A C K G R O U N D    on   Bruce Adamson

Above is photo of Adamson's grandfather George W. Ely, II at World War I reunion and right behind him is Black Jack Bouvier the father of Jackie Kennedy.

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Charles Wrightsman's (Jackie & JFK's neighbor -- Palm Beach) attorney was Allen Dulles future  CIA Director-Warren Commissioner.  

Oswald's CIA pal was friends with JFK and Jackie's Landlord C. Michael Paul who loaned his home in Palm Beach to the Kennedy's.  Oswald's pal was also friends with Charles Wrightsman and his daughter Charlene Wrightsman-Cassini, (Oleg's sister-in-law).  Charlene took her life when Bobby Kennedy as Attorney General brought criminal charges against her husband Igor Cassini.   This author believes that this matter is what CIA agent George de Mohrenschildt into action.  In 1955 de Mohrenschildt's in-laws the Sharpless Oil family and the Wrightsmans' organized the Palm Beach Goya Ball, (eight years before JFK's demise).  In 1992 The Palm Beach Sheriff's gave seller photocopies of de Mohrenschildt's personal papers and one will find listed in 1953 "C. Michael Paul (friend of Igor's)," ten years before JFK's demise.


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