Mildred A. Talbot [Jacqueline Kennedy]

Mildred A. Talbot, U.S. delegate of the Pan Pacific and Southeast Asia Women's Association writes the First Lady, Jacqueline Kennedy, to thank her on behalf of Queen Tupou of the Kingdom of Tonga. Authentic, typed letter (TL) to Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy. Dated May 20, 1964, with received stamped date of May 21, 1964. Not signed.

Tonga, officially the Kingdom of Tonga, is a Polynesian sovereign state and archipelago comprising 176 islands with a surface area of about 750 square kilometers (290 sq mi) scattered over 700,000 square kilometers (270,000 sq mi) of the southern Pacific Ocean, of which 52 are inhabited by its 103,000 people. Tonga stretches over about 800 kilometers (500 mi) in a north-south line about a third of the distance from New Zealand to Hawaii. It is surrounded by Fiji and Wallis and Futuna (France) to the northwest, Samoa to the northeast, Niue to the east, Kermadec (part of New Zealand) to the southwest, and New Caledonia (France) and Vanuatu to the west.

Tonga has never lost its sovereignty to a foreign power. In 2010 Tonga took a decisive step towards becoming a fully functioning constitutional monarchy, after legislative reforms paved the way for its first partial representative elections.