Calvin Coolidge writes to Grace Anna Goodhue: June 6, 1904.

The young lawyer Coolidge lived near the Clarke School for the Deaf in Northampton, Massachusetts. At the time, Grace Anna Goodhue, a young teacher, lived nearby. Grace spotted Calvin through a window, shaving with a derby hat on the back of his head to hold down part of his hair. The next part of the story is not clear: either he pursued her after she laughed at his shaving outfit, or she asked a janitor to deliver a flower in a pot to Calvin. In this letter, Calvin asks Grace about whether or not she would join him at the Colonial Reception and Ball, an event requiring “colonial style” dress. “How I shall not be happy if you do not go.”