Ellen Axson Wilson to Jessie Woodrow Wilson Sayre

Title

Ellen Axson Wilson to Jessie Woodrow Wilson Sayre

Creator

Wilson, Ellen Axson

Identifier

WWP17367

Date

1907 January 28

Description

Ellen Axson Wilson tells Jessie Wilson Sayre that she has heard from Woodrow Wilson while he is in Bermuda and gives her a brief account of recent events.

Source

Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library, Princeton University

Language

English

Text

My darling little girl

I was so busy looking after Hugh Black yesterday to write, having, in your father's absence the whole responsibility, but he has just gone and I hasten to catch the next mail. Since Margaret is just starting for Baltimore however it would be idle to write a “news letter.” She will tell you how much we all enjoyed Dr. Black and what wonderful sermons he gave us, especially at night in the church. I was rather sorry he had not given that particular one to the boys in the morning; but a great many of them were in the night congregation.
To my great and unexpected pleasure I had a letter from your father this morning. It came on the “Ponce”, a steamer which broke her shaft at sea, was lost for a week and finally was towed to Bermuda where she was repaired. The regular letter, the last before his return on the 9th, is due on Wednesday next. I think he is rather home-sick, but enjoying it all neverthe-less. I had rather hoped to get him to the Lakes alone next Summer since it suits him so well & we can't afford to go. But this letter makes me feel rather hopeless.—Margaret will tell you how beautiful the pictures look in the drawing-room; I am simply wild over them,—and also the sketch of you,—you darling! It seems almost too good to be true that I have that for my very own after all.Margaret will also tell you of the two reported engagements. Mr. Jeans, and the lame McPherson boy to Mary Moore!—each a nine days wonder. But I really think there is some reason to doubt the latter report.
I am very happy over Nellie's rapid improvement. It seems to me that she has not had so much colour since the original illness two years ago. She looks so pretty—in spite of the terrible scar, which I can hardly bear to look at. You would think a musket ball had plunged into her neck. But of course it will improve greatly as time goes on.—I am eager, darling, to hear again from the eyes, and if the back work proves a very heavy burden. Oh how I wish this were your last year! It seems so soon I can hardly bear to have you away another whole year. I could wish I had let you enter when Margaret did;—which would be rather like cutting off a bit of rope at one end to tie it on again at the other! So it is a silly wish! Never mind; summer will soon be here, and then we will be for three months a reunited family! We talked of renting the Vreeland house in Lyme next summer, as they will be in Europe. But some of their relations are to have it.
Good-bye my treasure! With love unspeakable I am as ever

Your devoted
Mother.

Original Format

Letter

To

Sayre, Jessie Woodrow Wilson, 1887-1933

Files

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Citation

Wilson, Ellen Axson, “Ellen Axson Wilson to Jessie Woodrow Wilson Sayre,” 1907 January 28, WWP17367, Jessie Wilson Sayre Correspondence, Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum, Staunton, Virginia.