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Adam Badeau, Grant in peace: from Appomattox to Mount McGregor, a personal memoir, Chapter 50: (search)
's place in England. As you have no doubt learned from the papers Mr. Frelinghuysen declines. It is to be regretted for Mr. F. and his family, are good representative Americans. The Summer in the United States has been intolerably warm. At Long Branch however we always have a breeze which makes the warmest weather endurable.Mrs. Grant to a little box I occupied eight or ten miles from London. He was staying at the Bristol Hotel. Sir Edward Watkins was the Chairman (President as Americans call it), of the London, Chatham & Dover Railway Company, and had offered the hospitality of his road whenever General Grant traveled over it; as in fact did mosto Peking my reception by the Civil & Military authorities was the most cordial ever extended to any foreigner no matter what his rank. The fact is Chinese like Americans better, or rather perhaps hate them less, than any other foreigners. The reason is palpable. We are the only power that recognize their right to control their
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