January 02, 1931
My dear Mrs. Wallace:
I was deeply grieved to learn yesterday of the death of your husband. Both Mrs. Hoover and I wish you to know of our sincere sympathy in your great loss.
Yours faithfully,
HERBERT HOOVER
[Mrs. Hugh Wallace, 1800 Massachusetts Avenue, Washington, D.C.]
Note: Mr. Wallace, United States Ambassador to France from 1919 to 1921, died on January 1, 1931, at his home in Washington, D.C.
Herbert Hoover, Message of Sympathy on the Death of Hugh Campbell Wallace. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/211950