Update: Woodrow Wilson Was a Real Man!

A item in Sunday's Washington Post noted that it was more than 90 years since the Wilsons (Woodrow and Edith) had graced the pages of the gossip columns. And yet a never-before-published love letter (again courtesy of the Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library in Staunton, Virginia, which I mentioned Doctor Grayson's letters in a previous post).

The letter was sent from Wilson to the Washington widow, Edith Bolling Galt, who would become Wilson's second wife in 1915. Edith was attempting to draw Wilson out of his grief after the death of his first wife, Ellen, in 1914. The letter is from the summer of 1915 and is fairly mundane in its contents:

"Best wishes for a delightful trip. Hope every experience of it will be delightful and refreshing and that you will all keep well."

The letter is signed - "Tiger"

Tiger! We stipulate for the record that Wilson is a graduate and was president of Princeton, but the teams did not become the Tigers until after he graduated. Now, now, Woodrow, really.