Grandma to Calvin: April 22, 1900.

In this letter, Coolidge’s grandmother talks of wanting Coolidge to get married. She also discusses the history of how he was named “John Calvin Coolidge.” The letter has a strong religious focus; Grandmother Coolidge cites scripture in asking Calvin to get married. She also notes how Coolidge was named for a brother of his grandfather who died as a child, and thereby shared a name with John Calvin. The sixteenth century Protestant theologian, Coolidge’s grandmother remarks, “was a noted reformer.”