Ellen Axson Wilson to Jessie Woodrow Wilson Sayre

Title

Ellen Axson Wilson to Jessie Woodrow Wilson Sayre

Creator

Wilson, Ellen Axson

Identifier

WWP17376

Date

1907 February 26

Description

Ellen writes to Jessie about her social life, theater plans, and domestic news.

Source

Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library, Princeton University

Language

English

Text

My darling

As you have Margaret there and have just had your father, there is no news to write today, but just a message of love from us all! We are all well and the weather is really splendid in spite of the cold. There was another heavy snowstorm on Sunday. Tell Margaret that in the thick of it Mr. Corwin came to call! To bad that she should miss him twice! I left him and Madge having tea together cosily, while I tramped hardily through the falling snow to the Ricketts. There, by the way, I met a young man to whom I lost my heart because he reminded me so much of Ed. He was a great, splendid looking fellow with something of Ed's sweetness in strength, in his expression. He too is a mining engineer (in Mexico) and he has a slight hesitation in his speech. The Ricketts' are devoted to him as he was like a son in their house in the west. He must have wondered at me for I could not keep my eyes from him, and I am afraid I looked at him as if I loved him!By the way, Miss Ricketts said he had spent a large part of his twenty-four hours in their house in rapt contemplation of your picture! He is a '98 man & knew Ed very well indeed.
Wasn't it simply unspeakable that dear Margaret should miss so much of the “Parsifel”? I really can't stop grieving over it, for she has been living on the thought of it for weeks. Both Stockton and Mrs. Trowbridge say that she behaved like a perfect angel;—so sweet and steady through it all. Tell her I am certainly proud of her. Tell her too that I have bought tickets for her and myself for “Midsummer's Night's Dream” in Phila. on Saturday afternoon.Miss Ludington is here for ten days and is lovlier than ever I think. They lunch with us on Thursday as your father has no free evening for a dinner.
You ought to see how charming the three bambini look on the stair-case wall. And you have a new bed stead!. Margarets old one was sent to Stockton & when his was sent here for storage, we found that it exactly matched Nells. So now they are really “twin beds” and you don't know how much it improves the room.
With love beyond words for both my darlings; I am, dearest, as ever—

Your devoted,
Mother.

Original Format

Letter

To

Sayre, Jessie Woodrow Wilson, 1887-1933

Files

http://resources.presidentwilson.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/EAWtoJWS19070226.pdf

Citation

Wilson, Ellen Axson, “Ellen Axson Wilson to Jessie Woodrow Wilson Sayre,” 1907 February 26, WWP17376, Jessie Wilson Sayre Correspondence, Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum, Staunton, Virginia.