Woodrow Wilson to Helen H. Gardener
Title
Woodrow Wilson to Helen H. Gardener
Creator
Woodrow Wilon
Identifier
WWP15054
Date
1918 August 21
Description
Woodrow Wilson writes Helen H. Gardener to show his distress at her hospitalization and inability to work; he also offers the possibility of his assistance in the future.
Source
Gilder Lehrman Collection, New York Historical Society, New York
Text
My dear Mrs. Gardener:
I am greatly distressed to know that you have been in the hospital and are not yet getting back your former strength. I can realize how it distresses you to give up the work in which you have been so actively and intelligently engaged.You may be sure that the suggestion contained in your letter of August 16th will sink in my mind and that I will keep my eye open for suitable occasions when I may either in the way you suggest or in some other way be influential in bringing about the result we both desire.
With the best wishes and most sincere sympathy,
Woodrow Wilson
I am greatly distressed to know that you have been in the hospital and are not yet getting back your former strength. I can realize how it distresses you to give up the work in which you have been so actively and intelligently engaged.You may be sure that the suggestion contained in your letter of August 16th will sink in my mind and that I will keep my eye open for suitable occasions when I may either in the way you suggest or in some other way be influential in bringing about the result we both desire.
With the best wishes and most sincere sympathy,
Woodrow Wilson
Original Format
Letter
To
Helen H. Gardener
Files
Citation
Woodrow Wilon, “Woodrow Wilson to Helen H. Gardener,” 1918 August 21, WWP15054, Gilder-Lehrman Institute for American History Woodrow Wilson Documents, Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum, Staunton, Virginia.