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[539] could be brought about. Refer to me in this or any other matter for your benefit.

George Jones and his wife dine with me on Saturday next. I will see what he might be willing to do in the direction you suggest. With a fair compensation from that quarter, your retired pay and what you might pick up in other ways, might be better, pecuniarily than an official position in Washington.

Very Truly Yours,


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 call upon him again if I were in your place even if I did not mention the Austrian Mission. He would be apt to speak of my letter. You might speak of the railroad inspectorship.

Very Truly Yours,


Letter no. Seventy-four.

The boxes referred to were left by me at the White House when I went abroad. They contained a few private papers of my own, but were principally filled with the material and proofs for the first volume of my Military History of Grant.

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

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