John Fitzgerald Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston. The Kennedys had upgraded from the Model T Ford they acquired while living at 83 Beals Street to the Pierce Arrow around the time they moved to a larger home on Abbotsford Road. Regarding the Pierce Arrow’s prestige, the same year the Kennedys purchased theirs, Woodrow Wilson was presented with the same car as a gift after his return from France, where he had negotiated the Treaty of Versailles. 
John Fitzgerald Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston. 
John Fitzgerald Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston. 
John Fitzgerald Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston. Students might note the H on Patricia’s sweatshirt. It is most likely a Harvard sweatshirt; her father, Joseph P. Kennedy Sr., as well as her 3 brothers, attended Harvard. 
John Fitzgerald Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston. 
John Fitzgerald Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston. Mrs. Joseph T Kennedy Care Raymond Whitcomb Tour Thirty Mission Inn Riverside Cali Rosa Dear I still maintain a reputation as the greatest manager in the world the children are fine Jack is sleeping every noon and is greatly improved stop The Moores have been the busiest people in the world and tonight May is going to the mission stop Joe is great and the little girls look fine stop We go out Friday nights so the cook is great and all in all we are doing nicely stop My mother improving too stop Your mother and Eunice are fine stop Your father says everything is fine with them stop I hope you are having a real good time because you richly deserve it please do not think too much about us and spoil your party stop I am not lonesome because I find myself very happy in the thought that you are enjoying yourself lots of love from us all Joe B17A APR 9 
John Fitzgerald Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston. Camp Wyanoke, Wolfboro, N.H. Dear Joe: After we left the Camp Sunday we went over to Gray’s Camp in Augusta. It took us about five hours. We left there Monday morning and I just had time to get the boat to New York and I had to go in my white knickers as there wasn’t enough time to go to Eddie’s house to get my blue suit, so Mother and Mrs. Moore had a great laugh. Eddie is sending up the things you wanted, from Boston, and you should have them tomorrow or the next day at the latest; that includes the tennis racket. I am getting busy on that picture proposition and hope to have a special KRAZY KAT cartoon made up; when it is completed I will drop you a line. I just want to tell you again that Mother and I were more than pleased that you were enjoying it up there and I certainly think you were wonderful to Mother to remember her on her birthday and to show her such attention at Camp and it made me very happy indeed. Don’t worry about the lessons because, after all, there isn’t much time left and you will be much better prepared in the Fall and then you will be thankful that you did a little work. Remember that Jack is practicing at the piano each day an hour and studying from one-half to three-quarters of an hour on his books so that he is really spending more time than you are. As I said before, we were all tickled to death with the way you seem to be getting along and I am going to try to get up to Camp once more before we sail for Europe. Love. Your JPK*HJT P.S. While I am making up the Krazy Kat picture, send me the names of some of the counsellors and boys and let me know some of the funny things that have happened to them and I will try to have them incorporated in this picture. 
John Fitzgerald Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston. Dear Jack: I got a great satisfaction out of your letter. In fact, I think the improvement started when you made up your mind to write, and there seems to be a forthrightness and directness that you are usually lacking. In addition to that, the penmanship was immensely improved. Now Jack, I don’t want to give the impression that I am a nagger, for goodness knows I think that is the worse thing any parent can be, and I also feel that you know if I didn’t really feel you had the goods I would be most charitable in my attitude toward your failings. After long experience in sizing up people I definitely know you have the goods and you can go a long way. Now aren’t you foolish not to get all there is out of what God has given you and what you can do with it yourself. After all, I would be lacking even as a friend if I did not urge you to take advantage of the qualities you have. It is very difficult to make up fundamentals that you have neglected when you were very young and that is why I am always urging you to do the best you can. I am not expecting too much and I will not be disappointed if you don’t turn out to be a real genius, but I think you can be a really worthwhile citizen with good judgment and good understanding. I like LeMoyne and think he is a very fine boy, with great possibilities, and I know that if both of you really made up your minds to do what you honestly could do with your talents, you would both be surprised and pleased. I hhink your letter shows that you have an appreciation of the problem and I am sure you will work it out with satisfaction both to youuself and to Mother and me. Good luck to you both, Love, JPK:A 
John Fitzgerald Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston. Dear Rosemary: Mother sent me your letter and I was delighted to hear from you. It showed a lovely spirit for you to write and pleased both Mother and me very much to think you are so appreciative and also to feel that you are now studying as hard as I know you can and are doing. I hope the skating turns out to be lots of fun and I will be anxious to hear just what happened to you. Be sure to wear a big pillow where you sit down so that when you sit on the ice (as I know you will) you won’t get too black and blue. I am looking forward to the fun we will have at Palm Beach, so do a good job on your work and we will talk it all over at Christ-mas time. Love, Miss Rosemary Kennedy 29 Powell Street Brookline, Massachusetts JPK:A 
John Fitzgerald Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston. Dear Teddy: I certainly don’t get all of those letters you keep telling me you write to me and I should think you would make your plans to write me at least once a week, because your sisters do very well and you and Bobby are the worst correspondents I have in the family. In addition to that it is a very good practice for you to write, so I hope that you will plan to send me a regular letter for as long as I am here. Incidentally I certainly was thrilled to hear all your voices on the radio. You are a great little cheer leader, and that Hip! Hip! Hooray! couldn’t have been better. I don’t know whether you would have very much excitement during these raids. I am sure, of course, you wouldn’t be scared, but if you heard all these guns firing every night and the bombs bursting you might get a little fidgety. I am sure you would have liked to be with me and seen the fires the German bombers started in London. It is really terrible to think about, and all those poor women and children and homeless people down in the West End of London all seeing their places destroyed. I hope when you grow up you will dedicate your life to trying to work out plans to make people happy instead of making them miserable, as war does today. I was terribly sorry not to be with you in swimming at Cape Cod this summer, but I am sure you will know I wanted to be, but couldn’t leave here while I had work to do. However, I am looking forward with great pleasure to our swims at Palm Beach this winter. I know you will be glad to hear that all these little English boys your age are standing up to this bombing in great/ 
John Fitzgerald Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston. Well, old boy, write me some letters and I want you to know that I miss seeing you a lot, for after all, you are my pal, aren’t you? Master Teddy Kennedy, Hyannisport, Massachusetts. JPK/ [?] K |
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