“Save one line and make a little better English”

Letter from Vice President Calvin Coolidge to his father: December 5, 1921.

On the vice president’s stationery, Coolidge wordsmiths a headstone for the grave of Abigail Coolidge, his younger sister, who had passed away in 1890. The suggested wording did not please Coolidge. He notes, though, that he would be satisfied with whichever wording that his father chooses.