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Lot #300
Woodrow Wilson

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TLS, one page, 7 x 9.5, personal letterhead, October 28, 1922. Letter to Dr. W. G. Chase, in full: "It was very cheering to get your letter of October twenty-sixth, reminding me of an old friendship and evidencing and evidencing your very kind interest in what affects me. I hope that things go happily with you these days and beg that you will accept both my thanks for your courtesy and my cordial good wishes." Also includes two items signed by his wife, Edith Wilson, including: a black-bordered mailing envelope, postmarked March 12, 1924 (eight days after the death of her husband), filled out in another hand and franked in the upper right, "Edith Bolling Wilson," which includes the original black-bordered card: "Mrs. Woodrow Wilson desires to express her deep appreciation of your kind sympathy; and an ALS signed "Edith Bolling Wilson, (Mrs. Woodrow Wilson)," four pages on two adjoining sheets, 4.5 x 7, no date, in which Wilson requests the company of friends for tea, but explains that her "husband has not been very well for the past few days so he will have to give up the coveted pleasure of welcoming you himself." In overall very good to fine condition, with toning from prior display. Accompanied by a fabric color 4 x 6 portrait of President Wilson by B. D. V. Cigarettes.

Auction Info

  • Auction Title: March Auction
  • Dates: #523 - Ended March 07, 2018





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