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When you come North, and visit Long Branch, come directly to my house. Whether I have company or not there will always be a room for you. Of course I mean this as an invitation to you to come to Long Branch notwithstanding the ambiguity of the preceding sentence.

Yours Truly,


Letter no. Eighty-seven.

This was written when I was in the United States on a leave of absence from my post in Havana. In the concluding sentence General Grant refers to the fact that I had been ill from the effects of the climate.

Long Branch, N. J., Aug. 27th, 1883.
Dear Badeau,—I am just now in receipt of your letter of the 24th inst. It is the first I had heard of your arrival though I supposed you were some place in the Catskills. Jesse and family expect to go to the Kaaterskill house to-morrow, his family to remain until he and I return from our trip over the North Pacific railroad. We start on that trip on Thursday next. It is probable that we will go no further than where the two ends are to be united—the last spike driven. In that case we will be back from the 12th to 14th of Sept. I am sorry that I cannot see you before starting; but I presume I will be back before you will want to go to Washington. I would suggest that you write to the Sec. of State a note saying that from your condition owing to your long delay in Havana that you will not go to Washington until after the first frost.

Very Truly Yours,


Letter no. Eighty-eight.

The first part of this letter is given in Chapter XXXIX on ‘Grant and Blaine.’

The paper spoken of recommended an absolute protection by the Government of American citizens and American interests in the Island of Cuba. General Grant was strongly

S. S. Scranton and Co., Hartford, 1887.

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