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Document 259123 ETHEL KENNEDY The wife of Robert F. Kennedy thanks "legend" Joan Crawford for Spring flowers. TLS: "With warm wishes-/Ethel Kennedy", 1p, 5¾x7½. Hickory Hill, McLean, Virginia, 1971 October 21. To "Miss Joan Crawford." In full: "Many happy thanks for the scrumptious bouquet you sent and also an apology for taking so long to thank you. I seem to be always hopelessly behind in my mail. Of course, I can understand why you are a legend, only a legend could come up with a florist who could produce the most gorgeous bouquet of Spring flowers right in the shank of Autumn." Ethel Skakel married Robert F. Kennedy in 1950, becoming one of the Kennedy clan and an heir to the "Kennedy curse". Ethel was carrying the couple's 11th child when her husband was assassinated in Los Angeles in June 1968. Her son David died of a drug overdose in 1994 and son Michael was killed in a skiing accident in Aspen, Colorado in 1998. This year, her nephew Michael Skakel faces murder charges in the 1975 death of Martha Moxley; both Skakel and Moxley were 15 at the time. Ethel's son, Joseph P. III, represented Massachusetts in Congress (1987-1999) and her daughter, Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, has been Maryland's Lieutenant Governor since 1995 and is expected to run for Governor this year. Daughter Kerry Kennedy Cuomo's husband Andrew is an announced candidate for the Democratic nomination for Governor of New York. The play on the word "legend" to Academy Award-winning actress Joan Crawford comes from the distinctive ad Crawford and other legendary greats did for Blackglama mink, titled, "What Becomes A Legend Most?" Lightly rippled at top. Fine condition. SEE IF DOCUMENT 259123 IS FOR SALE RIGHT NOW!!
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