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New York City, Oct. 2nd, 1884.
Dear Badeau,—We are at home now, and settled, and will be glad to see you on Monday next, or any day thereafter that may suit your convenience best. I finished the Wilderness Campaign about a week before leaving Long Branch and have done nothing since. I propose however going to work next Monday, and to continue busily until I am done. As I told you in a previous letter there will be a room for you all the time you want to spend with us. There is room also for you to work on your own book. I have taken the front room,—the small one—at the head of the stairs for my work, and converted the boudoir into a bed room. Where I now am there is a table to write upon, and a large desk.

Very Truly Yours,


Letter no. One hundred and five.

General Grant still pressed me to go to him promptly, and after the receipt of this letter, in which he seemed so urgent, I gave up the completion of my own work and went to his house where I remained until the first week in May; during the greater part of his literary labor, and of his illness. He had arrived at the close of the Wilderness Campaign when he stopped work in March, never expecting to resume it; but I continued revising it, by his desire, for sometime afterward. In May I ceased my connection with his book.

This is the last letter in his own hand that General Grant ever wrote to me:

Oct. 8th, 1884.
Dear Badeau,—Your letter just received. The articles I have to examine were completed about the 10th of Sept. Of course it will not hurt to let them rest two weeks longer. But I will be glad to see you when you are ready to come. You had better bring your [own work] with you too when you do come. There will be room for you and me both in my room. If there is not a table can be put up in your bed-room.

Yours Truly,


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

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