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Document 5207

CALVIN COOLIDGE
The former President tends to the Coolidge Homestead in Plymouth.
TLS: "Calvin Coolidge", 1p, 8½x11. Northampton, Massachusetts, 1932 April 27. To Mr. H.V. Woods, Bridgewater, Vermont. In full: "I am enclosing my check for your bill. I suppose by the 'field drains from the tank' you mean the drain from the tank into the old drain that my father put in. I think I had made that perfectly clear and no doubt that is what you did. I am notifying the Florence people to go up Friday. I should presume it would be around noon when they get there. If they have to stay over night, I suppose there is a hotel at Bridgewater to which you could direct them. I presume there may be only one of them." In a handwritten postscript, the former President pens: "In case of need telephone Henry H. Morse of Florence Stove Co. Gardner Mass". On August 2, 1923, Vice President Coolidge and his family were visiting his father, John Coolidge, at the Coolidge Homestead in Plymouth, Vermont. President Harding died that day, but the Plymouth general store, which had the only telephone, had closed for the night and no one answered when it rang. Finally the telephone operator in Bridgewater sent her husband by automobile with a copy of the telegram to Coolidge saying that the President had died. He arrived at the Coolidge home about midnight. Reporters and local politicians soon began to arrive, and at 2:47 A.M. on the morning of August 3, 1923, Calvin Coolidge's father swore him in as President of the United States in the family sitting room. Gardner is in north central Massachusetts and the Coolidge Homestead in Plymouth is about 110 miles northwest in central Vermont. Bridgewater is about ten miles from Plymouth. Folds, none touching signature. Lightly creased. Fine condition.

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