Correspondence Between Mary Ball and Major General Harry Vaughan

Filed by MILITARY AIDE COMMITTEE ON: CLARE MAGEE PUBLIC WORKS 1ST DISTRICT, MISSOURI NOV 9 1951 SUBCOMMITTEES: HOME ADDRESS: RIVERS AND HARBORS UNIONVILLE, MISSOURI Congress of the United States PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS WASHINGTON ADDRESS: 102 HOUSE OFFICE BUILDING House of Representatites DCT: Washington, D. €. 50-mine October 2, 1951 swiff Dear General Vaughan: May I thank you, sincerely, for having been so kind as to have a gavel made of White House Wood, (which came by messenger), to be presented to the President of the Missouri Federation of Women's Democratic Clubs, which meet in Jefferson City, October 30 and 3lst. Mrs. June B. Welborn, the President, will be delighted with this gavel, which I shall present to her personally, together with your letter (which I shall re- quest be returned to me), when the convention convenes, and I know how pleased she is going to be get this beauti ful gavel. I showed it to Congressman Frank Boykin, and he thought it very beautiful. Thank you again, General Vaughan, and I almost kept the gavel myself! I want to get out to Jefferson City, as I have not missed a convention in many, many years, but I am going out to St. Louis to the Jefferson-Jackson Day Dinner Satur- day night, and don't know whether I can go back for the Jefferson City Convention or not. I shall hate to miss it - I have not done so in several years, and neither have I missed a National Convention since 1932, nor an Inauguration: Please remember me to Mrs. Jolly. Again thanking you, and with expressions of my regard, please believe me to be Sincerely yours, may Bau Major General Harry H. Vaughan, Military Aide to the President, The White House, Washington, D. C.