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Adam Badeau, Grant in peace: from Appomattox to Mount McGregor, a personal memoir, Chapter 27: (search)
-chambers were always occupied; now and then a guest could be invited to sleep, but the demands of the family prevented as much hospitality of this sort as either the General or Mrs. Grant would have desired. Below, the State apartments were often used; the East Room of course on grand occasions, and the Red parlor was open of an evening to many personal visitors. All the State dinners were given that custom requires, and sometimes the State dining-room was opened for a family party at Christmas or an entertainment to personal friends, while the ordinary dining-room was hardly ever without a guest of importance. For Grant liked to discuss informally with a Senator or Cabinet Minister or even with a political opponent the affairs in which he was peculiarly interested. Cigars always followed dinner, and sometimes billiards or cards with a few intimates. Grant spent more than his income during his first Administration and saved very little in the last four years, when the salary
Adam Badeau, Grant in peace: from Appomattox to Mount McGregor, a personal memoir, Chapter 49: (search)
came of a long-lived stock; and his nerve and will were what all the world knows. So there was hope; not with so much foundation as could have been desired, but still there was hope. I shall never forget the frolic with the little ones on Christmas Day. They all came to dinner, and the two youngest sat one on each side of him. He was comparatively free from pain at that time; indeed, for a month or more the excruciating tortures came only at intervals; and on this day he took his own placeipulated for the fourth article. This cheque was the last he ever endorsed, and the payment, beyond his expectations, gave him in the last week of his life the satisfaction of knowing that his literary efforts had a high market value. About Christmas the pecuniary troubles became more complicated. There was a possibility of some small creditors of Grant and Ward attempting to levy on the famous swords and presents he had received from Congress and the States and foreign potentates and cit
Adam Badeau, Grant in peace: from Appomattox to Mount McGregor, a personal memoir, Chapter 50: (search)
to stay and watch them. There is nothing new here since you left. It is now understood that there is no concealment of Arthur's candidacy. At this time no other person looms up so that unless there is a change within the next sixty days he will be renominated without much opposition. I feel however that he will not get the nomination although it is impossible to predict who may.—My family are all well and doing well. Very Truly Yours, U. S. Grant. Letter no. Ninety. On Christmas Day the news of General Grant's fall on the ice the night before was telegraphed to Havana, and I at once inquired the extent of his injuries, and received the following reply: New York, Dec. 27, 1883. A. Badeau, American Consul-General, Havana, Cuba: Painful but not dangerous. U. S. Grant. Letter no. Ninety-one. There was some talk of the physicians sending General Grant as far south as Havana, when he should be sufficiently recovered from the effects of his fall, and I