inscriptions, gave them to mrs. taft. st wishes from a telecom december 22, 1903, manila, philippines." that illustrates the admiration the philippine people had for the taft family, especially mrs. taft as she worked to make them feel integrated in the greatest society, make them feel equal to the other people, inviting them to parties, putting on musicals, those types of things, helping with education. so they really love the tafts, and to this day we still get people coming from the philippines who have that connection with the taft family and the things they did while they were there. >> while they were courting, first lady allen and president wilson wrote fervently to each other expressing their undying love. >> here on the shelves are the correspondence between woodrow love letters, and it has to be the largest collection of love letters between any future president and future first lady. these letters were sealed in a truck when they moved to the prospect house and 1902, and the truck was not open until the 1960s. i

my dear mrs. taft, best fishes adelia paterno, manila, philippines and goes to illustrate the admiration the filipino people had for the taft family, especially mrs. taft, as she worked to make them feel integrated into greater society, make them feel equal to the other people, invited them to parties, put on musicals and those types of things, helped with their education. they really loved the tafts and to this day, we still get people coming from the philippines that have that connection with the taft family and things that they did while they were there. >> while they were courting, first lady ellen and president wilson wrote fervently to one another expressing undyeing love. >> here on the shelves are correspondence between woodrow and ellen, love letters really. it has to be largest collection of love letters exchanged between any future president and future first lady. in fact these letters were sealed in a trunk when the wilsons moved to prospect house in 1902 and trunk wasn't opened until 1960'

mrs. tafted to lend and then donate her down. -- her inaugural down to the collection. she is one of the patrons of the first ladies collection and established the tradition first ladies would donate their inaugural gown to the collection. every first lady after helen taft who had an inaugural gown has donated it to the smithsonian institution. >> she love to travel. when taft got a chance to be chairman of the philippine commission, she jumped at the chance, encouraging him to take the job. they took the family into the philippines, where taft was later governor general of the philippines. she had a chance to travel the world. she also introduced her children to the travel. she learned differently which is. banquets were a big thing. before she and the children, william howard taft cabled about some of the banquets, and mrs. taft like to have some of the banquets and incorporate the military people, the philippine people, and these are programs from those. the philippine people loved william h

mrs. taftffered to lend and then donate her inaugural gown. she is really the founding patron in many ways of the first ladies collection and established the tradition first ladies would donate their inaugural down to the collection. every first lady after helen who had and inaugural gown has donated it to the smithsonian institution. >> she loves to travel. when howard taft got a chance to be chairman of the philippine commission, she jumped at the chance, encouraging him to take the job. they took the family into the philippines, where taft was later governor general of the philippines. she had a chance to travel the world. she also introduced her children to the travel. she learned different languages. banquets were a big thing. in fact, before she and the children, william howard taft cabled about some of the banquets, and mrs. taft like to have some of the banquets and incorporate the military people, the philippine people, and these are programs from those. the philippine people loved wil