October 03, 1931
[Released October 3, 1931. Dated October 2, 1931]
My dear Mrs. Simmons:
I was greatly shocked to learn of the death of Colonel Simmons who had long been my friend. He had a distinguished career of public service and his passing is indeed a great loss.
I am in hopes you will have the strength to bear up under this burden.
Yours faithfully,
[Mrs. Edward A. Simmons, 1625 Ditmas Avenue, Brooklyn, N.Y.]
Note: Mr. Simmons, president of the Simmons-Boardman Publishing Company, died on September 30, 1931.
Herbert Hoover, Message of Sympathy on the Death of Edward Alfred Simmons. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/207690