American Presidents: Life Portraits


A Site to Complement C-SPAN's 20th Anniversary Television Series, American Presidents: Life Portraits March-December 1999

Letters

Calvin Coolidge

The following is the last letter President Coolidge wrote to his wife before his death.

The Vanderbilt Hotel
Park Avenue at Thirty-fourth Street
New York Thursday

My dear Grace:

I have thought of you all the time since I left home.
Tomorrow I shall go home. Unless you hear send the car to Springfield at 8:40 Friday.

I have thought of you all the time since I left home.

With much love,

Calvin Coolidge

[The above letter is reproduced exactly as written and was obtained through the archives at the Library of Congress]

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