PRESIDENT CALVIN COOLIDGE - TYPED LETTER SIGNED 05/26/1930 - HFSID 27698
Sale Price $675.00
Reg. $800.00
CALVIN COOLIDGE
He signs a typed 1930 letter to an old friend: "Decoration Day" events will
keep him from going to Vermont.
Typed Letter Signed: "Calvin Coolidge", 1 page, 8½x11. Northampton,
Mass., 1930 May 26. To Rufus N. Hemenway, New Britain, Conn. In full:
"Your very kind note has been received. I am obliged to be in Springfield on
Decoration Day so I cannot go to Vermont. I trust you may have a very pleasant
day and wish you would give my remembrance to Mrs. Hemenway in Mrs. Coolidge
joins. With kindest regards, I am Very truly ypurs," Calvin Coolidge was
born on Independence Day, 1872, in Plymouth, Vermont and grew up there. Three
years after the Civil War ended, General John A. Logan, in his General Order No.
11, ordered that May 30, 1868 be "designated for the purpose of strewing
with flowers or otherwise decorating the graves of comrades who died in defense
of their country during the late rebellion", establishing the first
Decoration Day, now called Memorial Day. Rufus Hemenway was a longtime
friend of Coolidge; they had met as classmates at Black River Academy, Rutland,
Vermont. Lightly creased. Vertical fold passes through the "Co" in Coolidge.
Fine condition.
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