“You are, I am confident, of great value to the country”

Winthrop Murray Crane to Lieutenant Governor Calvin Coolidge: December 29, 1917.

This letter shows the friendship between Senator Crane and Coolidge. Crane was Coolidge’s political mentor, a former governor of Massachusetts, and a key ally in national Republican politics. He tells Coolidge that he will be a great asset both to the state and the nation during the troubled days of the First World War.