Lot 47
Coolidge Grace 1879 - 1957 First Lady Grace Coolidge pens a note about grief on Washington letterhead, after the death of her son
Autographed Note, signed by First Lady Grace Coolidge as "Sincerely yours / Grace Coolidge", and dated "September 29, 1954". 5" x 4" on White House card stock with raised seal. Accompanied by an autographed White House envelope postmarked 1924 with a 2 cent stamp, top edge torn open, with light note upper left scripted in graphite "_Ü_letter of sympathy at the time of the death of her son..."
To Mr. Ray Harris, "Yes, I have several copies of Mr. Guests poem entitled "Grief". It contains a beautiful thought also expressed in a prayer which I love written by James Mantinean beginning "we seem to give him back to Thee, dear God, who gavest him to us."
A heartfelt letter, from the period just after her son's death. Both she and President Coolidge became quite expectedly withdrawn as a result, with Coolidge even being known to have said "when he died, the power and glory of the Presidency went with him." It had only been a year prior when Calvin Coolidge most unexpectedly became the President resulting from the death of President Harding, who died in San Francisco while on a speaking tour of the western United States. Vice President Coolidge was in Vermont visiting his family home, which had neither electricity nor a telephone, when he received word by messenger of Harding's death. He dressed, said a prayer, and came downstairs to greet the reporters who had assembled. His father, a notary public, administered the oath of office in the family's parlor by the light of a kerosene lamp at 2:47 a.m. on August 3, 1923; President Coolidge then went back to bed. He returned to Washington the next day, and was sworn in again by Justice Adolph A. Hoehling, Jr. of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, to forestall any questions about the authority of a notary public to administer the presidential oath.
A poignant short letter penned during a very personal and emotional period for the Coolidge family.
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