Bill Clinton Letter From Yale in 1970

A signed Bill Clinton letter during his time at Yale. This letter is written on Yale stationary 8.5 x5.5. In fine condition. We where able to find no other letters written by Clinton while at Yale in 1970, in the auction records. In this letter by Clinton he tries to console, Dale for a loss she recently had. What is interesting is that Clinton quoted from one of his favorite author "Thomas Wolf" and book "You Cant Go Home Again". It is believed that the Dale in the letter is actually his first cousin, Dale Hefner Drake (1914–1996), to whom Clinton wrote this letter. She was President Clinton’s first cousin on his mother’s side.  Drake’s father, Isaiah Russell, was the half brother of Virginia Clinton’s father, Eldridge Cassady.  Eldridge and Edith Cassady, who operated a grocery store in Hope, kept young Bill Clinton while Virginia attended school in New Orleans to become a nurse anesthetist after the death of Bill’s biological father, William Jefferson Blythe Jr. 

"Dear Dale,

Mother wrote to me a few days ago, telling of all the loss you have suffered in so short of a time. And I thought I would write to you, though of course there is really nothing terribly profound I can say that would have much meaning compared to you have just been through. Just before he died, a man I wish had been a friend of mine, a great southerner, Thomas Wolfe, wrote what seems to me a finer testament to the beauty and meaning of life, any life, than any religious statement I have read: 'Something has spoken to me in the night, burning the tapers of the waning year; something has spoken in the night, and told me I shall die. I know not where. Saying:

To lose the earth you know for greater knowing, to lose the life you have for greater life; to leave the friends you loved for greater loving; to find a land more kind than home, more large than earth - Whereon the pillars of this earth are founded, towards which the conscience of the world is tending - a wind is rising, and the rivers flow.'

I am thinking of you and hope you are getting through the days with characteristic grit. See you Christmas.

Love, Bill."

Bill Clinton is an American lawyer and politician who served as the 42nd president of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Prior to his presidency, he served as governor of Arkansas (1979–1981 and 1983–1992) and as attorney general of Arkansas (1977–1979).

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