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might be better, pecuniarily than an official position in Washington. Very Truly Yours, U. S. Grant. Letter no. Seventy-three. General Grant had suggested one of the railroad inspectorships in the gift of the President as an appointment that might be acceptable to me. He knew that I intended to devote as much of my time and labor as I could command to his Political Memoirs, and he felt that he should in turn do all in his power to advance my interests. New York City, Feb'y 18th, 1882. Dear Badeau,—Yours of yesterday received. I wrote the President this morning suggesting Austria and said that your qualifications for the office were equal to those of any representative we have had at that court in twenty years. I also said that you spoke the German, French & Spanish languages, and that I believed you did the Italian also. Am I right? I marked the letter Personal on the envelope, and signed my name, so that it might go direct to the President. I think I would c