Ellen Axson Wilson to Woodrow Wilson

Title

Ellen Axson Wilson to Woodrow Wilson

Creator

Wilson, Ellen Axson

Identifier

EAW05111911

Date

1911 May 11

Source

Library of Congress

Publisher

Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum

Subject

Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924--Correspondence

Language

English

Spatial Coverage

Princeton, NJ

Text

Princeton, New Jersey

My own darling,
You can imagine with what absorbing interest we are following your movements as far as we are able; How fine it all is! I am hungering for more news through, more papers. A few, a very few clippings from Denver are all I have had. The "Times" gives but little, of course, and the other papers I see, the speeches, but few other details. I am hungry for all sorts of particulars. There was one fine article in the "Evening Post" on Sat., I think, telling exactly what I wanted to know. But it seems to me that Stockbridge is not half as good a press agent as Bacon and the "Evening Post" reports were during the campaign last fall. But the speeches do all that is necessary; they are perfection; and I am not the only one who thinks so. How very interesting the story about the telephone from Denver! The NY reporter asking "what is the next in Denver" and the answer; "the town is wild over Woodrow Wilson and is booming him for President." Even the "Times" had to put that in as news!

By the way, please don't say again that you "are not thinking about the presidency." All who know you well know that that is fundamentally true, but superficially it can't be true; and it gives the cynics an opening which they seize with glee. The "Sun" of course had an outrageous little editorial about it.

We are all well; I saw Margaret yesterday in New York. She looked extremely sweet and pretty. On last Saturday, Jessie, Nell and I went to Sea Girt. It was a perfect day and we enjoyed the trip extremely. The house is really most attractive, and the surroundings all that could be desired, great stretches of well kept grass, and a few good trees. We took a long drive both to the shore and back into the woods in the State carriage with the two fine horses. General Murray telephoned me an hour ago that he wants to come over this afternoon to "talk over Sea Girt" with me.

There is no Princeton news of sufficient importance to be mentioned to so busy a man. Prof. Abbott is being talked about a little for President (of Princeton!) Dr. Jacobus was here and interviewed members of the faculty about it. They all like the idea but fear "it would kill him" as Mr. Capps bluntly puts it. Mr. Capps said so many splendid things about Mr. Angell, and is so disappointed that his name has been dropped that I can't help being a little disturbed at your having thrown cold water on it. Mr. Capps thinks he would be beyond comparison the best man yet proposed (except of course, Fine.) He says he has grown a great deal in the last few years, and is not so nervous, that he is a man of splendid courage and the highest ideals, etc. Moreover he is a good administrative officer; he has been "Dean of Deans" there in Chicago for several years, and two months ago was elected vice president. Yet Mr. Capps thinks he could be got because he does not believe in the president. Mr. Capps thinks he is not a pragmatist to heart, and that it is rather foolish for the dept. to make a point of that. He does not write or speak about pragmatism; in fact he is not a philosopher at all but a psychologist. Don't you think it would be worthwhile to write a few lines to Dr. Jacobus modifying what you said before! We are so mortally afraid of this growing movement to stampede the alumni for Hibben and we don't really believe Abbott will accept it.

But I mustn't write more for you haven't time even to read long letters. Ah! how I love, love, love you, dearest, I am with you in spirit every moment. May God bless you and keep you well and strong to do His work. I am alone, of course, so I can only send my own love.

Your devoted little wife
Eileen.

Original Format

Letter

To

Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924

Files

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Citation

Wilson, Ellen Axson, “Ellen Axson Wilson to Woodrow Wilson,” 1911 May 11, EAW05111911 , Ellen Axson Wilson Letters, Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum, Staunton, Virginia.