Paris, February 7, 1919. 2 pp., on two 4to leaves. As President of the United States, to Brad Whitlock, Minister of the United States, American Legation, Brussels, Belgium, "I am genuinely distressed to find that I cannot, before going back home, leave Paris long enough to make a visit to Brussels... My duties here exact every hour of me and, I hope, will be very much more helpful to Belgium than any visit I could make would be... You have been very kind to my little girl... She was extremely fortunate to be in such hands when her cold came upon her." Crisp and clean, Wilson's strong, dark signature traversed at its center by moderate horizontal crease.