Among the 1.5 million condolence letters sent to former US president John F Kennedy's widow after his assassination in 1963 were more than two dozen from Jane Dryden, a 11-year-old who churned out a letter a week for six months straight "I know that you hate the whole state of Texas. I do to," she wrote to Jacqueline Kennedy from Austin in January 1964. "I wish I lived in Washington, DC whereu00a0 could maybe see you standing on your porch." Given the overwhelming volume of mail -- 8,00,000 letters in the first seven weeks alone -- most of the them were destroyed. But at least one of Dryden's notes ended up in the book historian Ellen Fitzpatrick wrote -- Letters to Jackie: Condolences From a Grieving Nation.

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Among the 1.5 million condolence letters sent to former US president John F Kennedy's widow after his assassination in 1963 were more than two dozen from Jane Dryden, a 11-year-old who churned out a letter a week for six months straight

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