(CNN) -- Letters by a teenage Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis to her Harvard boyfriend in the late 1940s show the future first lady writing about adolescent love, kissing and her loathing of attending a finishing school. The 22 letters and a printed telegram are being auctioned by Christie's, which estimates the value between $25,000 and $35,000. The auction house describes the writings as "the earliest Jackie Kennedy letters," displaying "a funny, spirited, at times cynical young woman, but one with great intelligence and a strong will of her own." On October 10, 1946, the 17-year-old Miss Bouvier reveals her "cooling enthusiasm" in a letter to Harvard boyfriend R. Beverley Corbin Jr., "who seems to have been badly hurt when Jackie refused to kiss him during one visit," according to Christie's.
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Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis was a teenager when she had a Harvard boyfriend
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A collection of her letters to him is now being auctioned
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The writings are described as Onassis's earliest letters
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