Calvin Coolidge writing his father, reporting on the Coolidges’ first Christmas in the White House: January 2, 1924.

Coolidge thanks his father for the “remembrance” and tells him he has duly put the boys’ money in the bank.

He comments on “Dallas’ girl Marian” staying with them for the holidays. Dallas Pollard was Coolidge’s cousin. Dallas’s daughter Marian was about 25 years old in 1924. Marian is the mother of actor/comedian Orson Bean, born Dallas Frederick Burrows.

Coolidge also boats that his boys are good cooks, “especially John, the Camp life did him much good last summer.” John spent the summer of 1923 as a “buck private” at the Citizens' Military Training Camp at Camp Devens in Massachusetts. It was there that he learned that his father had become president.

Coolidge closes the letter confident that he will win the Republican nomination for 1924 on the first ballot, “but one never knows what will happen in politics.”