Eleanor Randolph Wilson McAdoo to Jessie Woodrow Wilson Sayre

Please forgive the pencil but I'm writing this lying down—so I can rest at the same time. I was going to send you a telegram about Mac after his operation was over and then I thought that you'd read it just as soon in the newspapers and I'd write to you instead. He is getting along very well now, tho of course he is suffering a lot—but the doctor says that everything is going splendidly. We announced it as appendicitis to the newspapers, but it was really a rupture which had been troubling him for months. He was only waiting for Congress to adjourn to have it fixed. But so many people don't know what hernia is and so to prevent speculation we called it appendicitis. Of course I was frightened and miserable about it but I managed to keep it down and now its all over, thank heaven, and he'll be out of the hospital, and at home to recuperate there, in two weeks. I'm pretty blue to-day because of course he is suffering terribly now, but by to-morrow I think it will be much better. He's so wonderful about it all that I don't know half of what he's going through. But, by the time you get this everything will probably be alright. The doctor says that it has all been very successful and that he is doing splendidly in every way.
Darling Jetty, your letter was so sweet and I was so glad to get it and ashamed because I haven't written to you before this. I'm so glad that you and Frank and His Royal Highness are safely ensconced in your own home—it must be wonderful for you all. But oh, how we miss you here—you and that wonderful babe—if you only lived here, too, my precious sister. I adore you so and want to see you all the time. It makes it harder than ever to wait for MINE to come now that YOURS are gone.I'm feeling very well, tho' I get tired pretty easily—I'm not the wonder you were. I am kept awake until all hours by this strenuous and active angel I have, for she-he kicks and beats me. He-she is as strenuous as her-his father! Don't let Frank see this part—he might be shocked. Father is staying away from his office so as to get a little bit rested and looks better and much more “chipper.” He is still working hard of course, but not nearly so hard.
I must get this off to you quickly so you'll know all about Mac soon, but I'll write again in a little while.
I'm staying here at the White House for the two weeks—Everyone sends their dearest deepest love, as always, to you all three, and I send my whole heart full—March 13th 1915