THE BUZZ: Notes, photos of Jacqueline Onassis auctioned for $28,400

A few dozen pieces of personal correspondence by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, along with photographs of the former first lady in Palm Beach, sold at a Florida auction Saturday for a total of USD28,400. The items up for bidding at Palm Beach Modern Auctions included Onassis’ handwritten notes to interior designer Richard Keith Langham and Bill Hamilton, then the design director at Carolina Herrera. Onassis corresponded with both men about clothes and furnishings she was buying from the mid-­1980s through her death in 1994. Letters written by Onassis rarely appear at auction, and the auction house fielded “tremendous interest” in the roughly 20 lots available, said co-owner Wade Terwiller.