Mary Allen Hulbert Peck’s eight-year relationship with Woodrow Wilson spawned hundreds of steamy love letters and, she wrote, once led to a brief discussion of marriage. It began during Wilson’s presidency of Princeton in 1908, the year this photograph was taken in Bermuda, where they met, and spanned his years as governor and his campaign for the White House. Wilson’s first wife Ellen told her friends that her husband’s affection for Mrs. Peck was the cause of “the only unhappiness” in their married life.
Source photograph: Liberty Magazine, vol. 1, no. 33 (December 20, 1924), 5.
Date: 1908
Mary Allen Hulbert Peck’s eight-year relationship with Woodrow Wilson spawned hundreds of steamy love letters and, she wrote, once led to a brief discussion of marriage. It began during Wilson’s presidency of Princeton in 1908, the year this photograph was taken in Bermuda, where they met, and spanned his years as governor and his campaign for the White House. Wilson’s first wife Ellen told her friends that her husband’s affection for Mrs. Peck was the cause of “the only unhappiness” in their married life.
Source photograph: Liberty Magazine, vol. 1, no. 33 (December 20, 1924), 5.
Date: 1908