My dear Mrs. Van Valkenburg:
I am profoundly grieved to learn of the death of my dear friend, your husband, and both Mrs. Hoover and I wish you to know of our deep sympathy with you in your bereavement. The country has lost in him a citizen of distinguished patriotism, high mindedness, and zeal, and all of us who knew him well have lost an unselfish and most valued friend.
Yours faithfully,
HERBERT HOOVER
[Mrs. Edwin A. Van Valkenburg, Green Hill Road, Overbrook, Pa.]
Note: Mr,.Van Valkenburg, former editor of the Philadelphia North American, died at Jefferson Hospital in Philadelphia, Pa., on November 26, 1932.
Herbert Hoover, Message of Sympathy on the Death of Edwin A. Van Valkenburg. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/207655