POLITICAL NOTES: Two Letters

The letter which Calvin Coolidge wrote to Woodrow Wilson:

August 4, 1923.

My dear Mr. Wilson:

It is with great distress that I have to inform you officially of the death of President Harding. In his death the nation suffers an irreparable loss; to me personally it is the loss of a true friend.

Should you contemplate participating in the funeral services of the late President, which I should greatly appreciate, upon the receipt of an expression of your wishes you will, of course, be duly apprised of the arrangements.

Yours very...

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