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...love me in my every humour? Or would you prefer to think of me as always dignified?" wrote Woodrow Wilson to his first wife, Ellen Louise Axson, during their courtship. "I am afraid it would kill me," he added, "to be always thoughtful, sensible, dignified and decorous." But until a collection of 1,458 love letters to "Miss Ellie Lou" was presented to Princeton University by the couple's youngest daughter, Mrs. Eleanor McAdoo, 72, the world's image of Wilson was just that. Covering a span of 31 years, from their first meeting until Mrs. Wilson...
...AUNT LOUISA AND WOODROW WILSON- Margaret Axson Elliot-Chapel Hill...
Georgia-born, orphaned Margaret Axson was raised by two remarkable relatives -in childhood by her Aunt Louisa; in adolescence by her brother-in-law Woodrow Wilson, then President of Princeton. Now, as Margaret Axson Elliott, wife of Princeton's onetime Dean Edward C. Elliott, the sister of the first Mrs. Wilson has recorded her memories of these guardians who taught her the value of principles, courage and tolerance. Readers of My Aunt Louisa and Woodrow Wilson are likely to neglect worthy Aunt Louisa, for the interest and value of Author Elliott's unprofessional book are mainly...
...wife) who chatted and shook hands with another great Wartime leader, pale old General John Joseph ("Black Jack") Pershing. Also there was Francis Bowes Sayre, the other Wilsonian son-in-law whom President Roosevelt had made Assistant Secretary of State. His two children, Francis Bowes Sayre Jr. and Eleanor Axson Sayre, laid a wreath on the Wilson tomb in the crypt of the Washington Cathedral...
...parasol would be the envy of many a prairie lady back home in Illinois. Lucretia Garfield stands resolutely erect, prepared for tragedy. Edith Carow Roosevelt placidly reads her book. Only the faintest notes of discord jar the harmony among the ghostly ladies in the Smithsonian gallery. Pale Ellen Axson Wilson has joined Mmes Taft and Roosevelt in their glass case, while her successor, Edith Boiling Gait Wilson stands with Florence Kling Harding and Grace Goodhue Coolidge, whose short skirt and sorority pin would have mystified many in that quiet company...