The three part series appeared in the Delineator in the summer of 1921, while Coolidge was Vice-President. The mss. consist of the following: “Reds in the Women’s Colleges”; 35 pages; Coolidge’s holograph in pencil, corrected by Coolidge and with a note on Senate letterhead, “Corrected as indicated and completed. Calvin Coolidge,”; “Enemies of the Republic”; 34 pages; Coolidge’s holograph in pencil; corrected; “Woolves [sic] in Lamb’s Clothing”; 28 pages; corrected and with his signed pencil instructions at the top of the first page. There are additional pencil notes by Coolidge, 8 holograph letters signed, 6 typed letters signed (some to the editor and some to her husband), and numerous telegrams, secretarial letters, carbons and clippings, as well as an 8 x 10” photograph (somewhat oxidized) inscribed by Coolidge to the editor’s son. Much of this correspondence relates to the controversial subject matter as well as the baseless accusation that Coolidge had put his name on the work of a ghostwriter, the falseness of which is unequivocally proven by these mss. The editor, Marie Meloney (Mrs. William Brown Meloney) was clearly outraged by these charges and wished to file suit, but Coolidge counseled otherwise, “...I have had considerable experience in dealing with the public and am inclined to think that the way to deal with the situation you have reported is to ignore it entirely. Of course, you have the original evidence in your possession, so that you know I wrote these articles myself...” The famously frugal Coolidge used whatever stationery he had at hand: personal (”Calvin Coolidge/ Northampton, Massachusetts”), the letterhead of the Governor of Massachusetts, as well as his official “Vice-President’s Chamber, Washington.” In a letter to Mrs. Meloney dated March 7, 1921, in which he was submitting his ms., he wrote, “...May I add that this is the first letter I have now written on my official stationery.” The women’s colleges took exception to the sensational and exaggerated claims of Coolidge, who had come late to red-baiting, a hysteria which by this time was already declining. Excellent condition; in a custom quarter-morocco slipcase.

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