Calvin Coolidge writing his father: May 21, 1924.

Coolidge asks his father to come to Washington for a visit. Coolidge wrote many letters throughout May in an effort to persuade his father to visit for Grandson John’s graduation from Mercersburg Academy on June 4, then to come to Washington, and then possibly to the Republican National Convention in Cleveland from June 10 to 12. The seventy-nine-year-old declined all of Coolidge’s offers. The Associated Press caught up with Colonel Coolidge over the summer, and he told the newspaper, “I’ve had several invitations… One was to go to Washington en route to Cleveland and to see my grandson graduate at Mercersburg, Pa. But there is too much to do here, and I shan’t accept any of these invitations.”

Coolidge also comments in this letter that he “has had a cold.” The New York Times on May 21 reported that Coolidge was suffering from “rose fever” and took “chlorine gas treatment” in an effort to alleviate the effects of the cold. Coolidge reported that “all of the depression and lack of energy which accompanies a cold had disappeared.”