$350
Estimate: $300 - $500
Auction: November 12, 2020 10:00:00 AM EDT
Paris, October 8, 1925. 3 pp. on one sheet folded to make four pages. 7 3/8 x 5 5/16 in. (187 x 134 mm). Autograph letter, signed by First Lady Edith Bolling Wilson, to a Mr. Johnson, regarding a memorial for her late husband, twenty-eighth president Woodrow Wilson, who died the previous year. On Hotel Chambord stationery; creasing from original folds. Lot includes a signed portrait of Edith Wilson.
A year after her husband Woodrow Wilson's death, former First Lady Edith Bolling Wilson writes about the importance of the League of Nations, and speculates about an appropriate memorial to remember her late husband: "While I was in Geneva one or two personal friends spoke to me regarding a Library Building for the League of Nations as a memorial-which seems to me peculiarly fitting as it would not only represent his great work for the League-and his public life...I wish you could see for your self the great living monument he has in Geneva-for it seems to me the work being accomplished there by the League is the greatest force for law and order as well as peace ever organized in the world..."