May 01, 1931
[Released May 1, 1931. Dated April 30, 1931]
I AM DISTRESSED to learn of the sudden death of your distinguished husband. Mrs. Hoover joins with me in expressing heartfelt sympathy.
HERBERT HOOVER
[Mrs. E. A. Alderman, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va.]
Note: Dr. Alderman, president of the University of Virginia and the author of books on Southern history and culture, died on April 29, 1931, while en route to a speaking engagement at the University of Illinois.
Herbert Hoover, Message of Sympathy on the Death of Edwin Anderson Alderman. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/212466