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He got her dozens of them. One shawl was so tremendous that she could not wear it, so she draped it over the banister on the second floor, and it hung over the stairway. The President used to look at it with a ghost of a smile. Mrs Coolidge spent more time in her bedroom among her doll collection. She kept the dolls on the Lincoln bed. At night, when Mama would turn back the covers, she would have to take all the dolls off the bed and place them elsewhere for the night.   Mama ALWAYS felt that the collection symbolized Mrs Coolidge's wish for a little girl.   Among the dolls was one that meant very much to the First Lady, who would pick it up and look at it often. It had a tiny envelope tied to its wrist. An accompanying sympathetic letter explained that inside the envelope was a name for Mrs Coolidge's first granddaughter. Mama knew this doll was meant to help Mrs Coolidge overcome her grief by turning her eyes to the future.