Calvin Coolidge writing his father from Swampscott, Massachusetts: July 27, 1925.

Every summer while Coolidge was president, he left Washington for a few months and set up a “Summer White House.” As for his reasoning, Coolidge said in a 1926 press conference, “I don’t go away from Washington for the purpose of avoiding the Washington climate so much as I do for the purpose of getting a change.” In Swampscott, Coolidge stayed at the White Court estate. With its sweeping views of the Atlantic Ocean and cool ocean air, it provided a respite for the Coolidges. In a letter to his father dated July 21, Coolidge remarks, “Grace seems to thrive in this climate. It is lucky we left Washington, for it is the hottest summer they have had there for a long time. Here I wear winter clothes.”

Coolidge comments in this letter, “The artist is still working on my picture” in reference to a full-length portrait of him being painted by Edmund Tarbell. The portrait was commissioned by the Massachusetts Legislature for $3,500 and will be hung in the State House in Boston. Coolidge finds the process “hard work” and many letters to his father will comment on the progress of the portrait.

Coolidge also comments on Drs. Shute and Cram, who will be calling on his father soon. Arthur Chute was a physician from Boston, and A. M. Cram was the Coolidge family doctor from Bridgewater, Vermont. On June 28, Dr. Chute had performed an operation on Colonel Coolidge in Plymouth to remove an abscess on his prostate.

Coolidge closes by saying that John will be going to “Camp” on August 1, which is the Citizens’ Military Training Camp at Camp Devens in Massachusetts. This will be John's third summer at the Camp and this summer: “he has some studying to do.”