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Document 256895

EDITH B. WILSON
Sending thanks for a tribute to Woodrow Wilson.
TLS: "Edith Bolling Wilson", 5¾x4 card. Washington, D.C., no date. To Mr. Wines. In full: "Thank you for your letter and tribute to Mr. Wilson. I am glad to send you my autograph but it is written with a broken right arm." On December 18, 1915, in Washington, D.C., 43-year-old widow Edith Bolling Galt, whose husband Norman had died in 1908, married 58-year-old widower President Woodrow Wilson. Wilson's wife Ellen had died in the White House in 1914. President Wilson suffered paralytic strokes on September 26 and October 2, 1919. According to her 1939 autobiography, My Memoirs, Edith was told by neurologist Dr. Francis Dercum to "free him from worry". Edith read dispatches, referred matters to Cabinet officers, took Wilson's dictation and protected him from the stress of political problems. She claimed to have made no decisions regarding public policy but she did admit that her husband never read, saw, listened to or signed anything she had not approved of first. The press called it a "Petticoat Government" or "Mrs. Wilson's Regency". She was also called "Madame President". Under his wife's care, Wilson lived another five years, dying in 1924 at the age of 67. Mrs. Wilson died at 89 on December 28, 1961, the 105th anniversary of her husband's birth. Fine condition.

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