Calvin Coolidge writing his father: December 9, 1925.

Coolidge starts by talking about his “two addresses” and the “message to Congress.” The first of two addresses is most likely one given on November 19 at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York to the Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York entitled “Government and Business.” In that address, he advocated U.S. membership in the World Court and “the largest possible independence between government and business. Each ought to be sovereign in its own sphere.”

The second was likely Coolidge’s December 7 speech given in Chicago to the American Farm Bureau Federation entitled “The Farmer and the Nation.” In that speech, Coolidge advocated against the McNary-Haugen Farm Relief Bill. The “message to Congress” is the annual State of the Union message. Although Coolidge gave the speech personally in the Capitol in 1923, he sent his speech to Congress in 1924 and 1925.

Coolidge ends this letter by remembering those relatives who have passed away. His mother died when Coolidge was 12, sister Abbie when he was 17, paternal grandmother Sarah Brewer Coolidge in 1906, and Calvin, Jr. just the prior year.