Feb 20, 2020 - Sale 2530

Sale 2530 - Lot 100

Unsold
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
WILSON, EDITH BOLLING. Autograph Letter Signed, twice (in full and "Mrs. Woodrow Wilson"), as First Lady, to Natalie Harris Hammond, inviting her to lunch [at the White House]. 3 pages, 8vo, written on a folded sheet, personal stationery, page 3 written vertically; remnants of prior mounting at corners of terminal page. [Washington, December 1917]

Additional Details

"I have just heard that Eleanor McCarthy and Belle Baruch are on their way North from South Carolina and will stop off for a few hours with me on Sunday (the tenth).
". . . [J]oin us for a perfectly informal lunch at one o'clock. . . ."
With--Edith Bolling Wilson. Partly-printed invitation, accomplished in holograph, to Mrs. Hammond for Thursday afternoon, December 6th at 4 o'clock. 1 page, 3 1/2x4 1/2 inches, gilt and embossed presidential seal at upper center. With the original White House envelope, addressed in holograph.