My dear Mrs. Bliss:
I am profoundly grieved at the death of my dear friend your husband, and Mrs. Hoover and I send you our deepest sympathy in your loss. His long record of distinguished service to our country and to the world is known to all and assure him an enduring fame, but to those of us who worked with him and came to know him intimately he will remain in memory, first as a loyal and lovable companion.
Yours faithfully,
HERBERT HOOVER
[Mrs. Tasker H. Bliss, 1842 Kalorama Road NW., Washington, D.C.]
Note: General Bliss died on November 9, 1930, in Washington, D.C. He served as the major customs official in Cuba from 1898 to 1902, as commanding officer in the Philippines from 1908 to 1909, as Chief of Staff of the Army during World War I, as a member of the Supreme War Council in France and the American Commission to Negotiate Peace from 1918 to 1919, and as Governor of the United States Soldiers' Home from 1920 to 1927.
Herbert Hoover, Message of Sympathy on the Death of Tasker H. Bliss. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/212349