FIRST LADY GRACE COOLIDGE - ENVELOPE SIGNED CIRCA 1933 - HFSID 274017

GRACE COOLIDGE
Grace Coolidge signs an envelope in black ink.
Envelope signed: "Autographed/Grace Coolidge", 7½x4. 3-cent stamp affixed, postmarked Northampton, Mass., May 2, 1933. Addressed (unknown hand) to a collector in New Orleans at lower right margin. Magazine photograph, b/w, 1¾x2½, affixed at left margin. Signed just four months after her husband, former President Calvin Coolidge, had died unexpectedly of a heart attack on January 5, 1933. Grace Anna Goodhue (1879-1957) had married Calvin Coolidge on October 4, 1905 in Burlington, Vermont. The couple had two children, John and Calvin, who died in 1924 while his father was the nation's 30th President (1923-1929). Mrs. Coolidge was called her husband's greatest asset because of her warm, giving ways, which were in dramatic contrast to her grave, quiet husband (the White House staff called her "Sunshine"). Forbidden by Coolidge to speak in public, she once answered reporters in sign language (she had been a teacher at a school for the deaf when she met her future husband). While President, Grace's husband set her schedule and would not let her fly in a plane, bob her hair, wear short skirts or ride a horse. The Coolidge's left Washington on the evening of Herbert Hoover's inauguration to return to Northampton, Massachusetts. Lightly creased. Rippled above photograph, touching the "e" of Grace and the second "o" in Coolidge. Slightly shaded at blank right margin, touching address. Glue stains on verso (no show through). Overall, fine condition.