Eleanor Randolph Wilson McAdoo to Jessie Woodrow Wilson Sayre

Title

Eleanor Randolph Wilson McAdoo to Jessie Woodrow Wilson Sayre

Creator

McAdoo, Eleanor Wilson, 1889-1967

Identifier

WWP17470

Date

1913 December 4

Description

Eleanor Wilson McAdoo writes Jessie Wilson Sayre on the latter's honeymoon trip to England.

Source

Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library, Princeton University

Language

English

Text

My precious Jetty-love

I have a funny way of thinking that when people are on the sea it's impossible to write letters to them until theyve landed on the other side—as if all other ships stop running until that one arrives at it's destination! And so I haven't written to you until now—But I don't think I could have, before this, any how, because I've been so sick with loneliness for you, darling sister whom I love more than I have ever been able to show you. My heart is so full of happiness for you, and so empty because you have gone that it's very hard to write. I have just come back from a party so it's very late and I can't make you feel badly by sitting up more than a few minutes longer. But I've been going to bed early whenever I didn't have to go out—really I have!I'm so anxious to know what sort of a trip you all had, and whether you were bothered terribly by people, and if you froze to death—but of-course you two didn't!People just can't stop talking about how wonderful and beautiful and—simply beyond words you were on the twenty-fifth— I have never heard such things said about anyone in all my life. And I can't say anything when they talk like that, because—well, because I can't.
I'm very happy now, Jetty darling, because Ben is back in this country. He is on his way to Chicago now but will probably come here for a little while on his way back to Honduras. He has found something very fine there and has come back to talk to Mr Smith and see about the prospects of raising capital, while he's waiting for the Hondurians who own the tracts to make up their minds about selling. Of-course they may not sell at any reasonable price at all and the expect to take several months to decide, but if they once come to terms it will be great! I wish I had time to tell you more about it, but I will later. Now, I must close up this scribble—We are all well, except for a cold that Father has—but he's much better now.I can hardly wait to hear from you two dears—but I know how happy you must be. With all the love you could ever want, my darling, darling sister—and dear love to my splendid new brother—and Ben sends his most especially—


Nell—

Original Format

Letter

To

Sayre, Jessie Woodrow Wilson, 1887-1933

Files

http://resources.presidentwilson.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/NWtoJWS19131204.pdf

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Citation

McAdoo, Eleanor Wilson, 1889-1967, “Eleanor Randolph Wilson McAdoo to Jessie Woodrow Wilson Sayre,” 1913 December 4, WWP17470, Jessie Wilson Sayre Correspondence, Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum, Staunton, Virginia.