Edith Benham Helm to Alice Gertrude Gordon Grayson
Title
Edith Benham Helm to Alice Gertrude Gordon Grayson
Creator
Helm, Edith Benham, 1874-1962
Identifier
WWP15600
Date
1919 January 8
Source
Cary T. Grayson Papers, Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library, Staunton, Virginia
Language
English
Text
28 Rue de Clouseau
Paris
My dear Mrs Grayson
I hope you will think the handkerchiefs as pretty as Mrs Wilson and I do, for she helped me choose them & we think them lovely.
I do want to tell you, and this with a very full heart, what a very wonderful person I think he is. Of course you knew this all along but I hadn’t seen him under the acid test of responsibility & hard work & to see him always cheerful, never impatient is a great lesson to crabbed old me. He is all pure gold and it isn’t just because he has looked out for me and taken care that I should see things & go to things that I wouldn’t have done otherwise, for he is the same to every one. I have grown to love him just like one of my own family and I want to get home and hug you, sweet thing & tell you what we all like to hear how fine your own is.
All good wishes to you & little Gordon for the New Year
Affectionately yours
Edith Benham
Paris
My dear Mrs Grayson
I hope you will think the handkerchiefs as pretty as Mrs Wilson and I do, for she helped me choose them & we think them lovely.
I do want to tell you, and this with a very full heart, what a very wonderful person I think he is. Of course you knew this all along but I hadn’t seen him under the acid test of responsibility & hard work & to see him always cheerful, never impatient is a great lesson to crabbed old me. He is all pure gold and it isn’t just because he has looked out for me and taken care that I should see things & go to things that I wouldn’t have done otherwise, for he is the same to every one. I have grown to love him just like one of my own family and I want to get home and hug you, sweet thing & tell you what we all like to hear how fine your own is.
All good wishes to you & little Gordon for the New Year
Affectionately yours
Edith Benham
Original Format
Letter
To
Grayson, Alice Gertrude Gordon, 1892-1961
Files
Collection
Citation
Helm, Edith Benham, 1874-1962, “Edith Benham Helm to Alice Gertrude Gordon Grayson,” 1919 January 8, WWP15600, Cary T. Grayson Papers, Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum, Staunton, Virginia.