“How much pleasure you really made for me”

Calvin Coolidge to Grace Goodhue: November 6, 1904.

In this letter, written during Calvin’s courtship of Grace, he writes of how much he enjoys spending time with her, even (or, paradoxically, especially) once they are apart, because only then can he fully appreciate her company. “It was all, all so delightful to me,” he writes. As a sign of his increasing involvement in politics, Calvin asks Grace to call the Republican headquarters of Northampton city hall if she cannot find him.