Calvin Coolidge Sends an Autograph to a Collector

Shortly after the 1932 election, Walter Carter of Cleveland sent a request to former President Coolidge for a signed photograph. Though he had no photograph to send, Coolidge responded with a handwritten letter.

Autograph letter signed, on his letterhead, Northampton, Mass., November 26, 1932, to Walter Carter in Cleveland. “Please accept my thanks for your note with the interesting drawing. I am not able to provide photographs for general distribution, and not being skilled in making pictures, I can only respond with an autograph letter.”

ALSs of Coolidge are uncommon, this being the only one we have had in some years.