Frances Cleveland Handwritten Letter. Former 1st Lady, Great Content

Frances Cleveland Handwritten Letter. Former 1st Lady, Great Content

- An autograph letter signed "Frances F. Cleveland" as First Lady. Writing on her personal "Executive
Mansion" letterhead, Cleveland wrote to "Mrs Draper": "I thank you so much for your kind thought of Ruth
for Wednesday afternoon, and I am going to let her make a trial of it, for I know if she can enjoy it at all it
will give her so much pleasure. My only hesitation is because she was so frightened at the 'Brownies' - and I
think if she is in when the curtain goes up she may not be so alarmed as at the Brownies where she was
plunged suddenly into a terrible noise and confusion & all absolutely new to her. I think you said I might
send her nurse, Bonnie, with her . and is she is at all alarmed she can come home at once. You are very
good to ask her. I have wanted to see you to ask you if you would not be willing to have your little Margaret
join a little German Kindergarten Class we expect to begin next week & continue through February &
March. I should like to talk to you about it five minutes before you say yes or no . and if you could come in
tomorrow Monday at a quarter before five I should be glad to see you to explain therefore any one else coma in .. "
Frances Cleveland was America's youngest First Lady; she was just twenty-cne when she married in the
White House. She had five children, including Ruth (the origin of the name of the candy bar Baby Ruth).
Therefore, it is not surprising that she organized a kindergarten for her children. The letter is in very fine
condition overall.