Jackie Kennedys teenage love letters up for grabs

The 20 notes were sent to R. Beverley Corbin,jr. or,”Bev” a Harvard student with whom she enjoyed a long-distance romance from her room at Miss Porter’s boarding school in Connecticut.

Dating from 1945 to 1947,the letters describe her as a “funny,spirited and at times cynical young woman one with great intelligence and a strong will of her own.”

Penned after her parents had gone through a bitter divorce,and amid financial worries at home,they disclose the anguish Bouvier felt at being trapped in what she described as her “prison”.

The letters were addressed to Bev at The Owl Club,one of Harvard’s famous ”final clubs” and give touching glimpses into the joys and heartaches of an ordinary girl who would go on to live one of the 20th century”s most extraordinary lives.