All send our kindest regards to Mr. Cramer, and love to you and the children.

Yours affectionately,

U.S.  GRANT.

P.S.  I shall always be delighted to receive letters from you and Mr.
Cramer whether I answer them or not.

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Washington, D.C.,
June 2nd, 1872.

DEAR FATHER: 

Hearing from home frequently as I do through persons coming from there and through occasional letters, I scarcely ever think of writing.  Hereafter, however, I will try to write oftener or have Jesse write.  The children might all write to you for that matter.  We hear occasionally from Fred. directly and very often through the papers.  He has enjoyed his European trip very much and I think will be much improved by it.  Nellie writes very often; she is a very much better writer than either of the boys.  Her composition is easy and fluent, and she writes very correctly.  She seems to have made a very good impression where she has been.—­Buck sails for Europe on the 6th of July.  He will travel but little however.  He expects to study his third year Harvard course in some quiet German village, and return in June next in time for his examinations.  In this way he expects to graduate at the same time he would if he did not go abroad.  The object is to acquire a speaking knowledge of both the German and French languages, in both of which he is now quite a good scholar.

I received a letter from Mary a short time since.  She said that she would leave for home about the first of June.  You may expect her home by the twentieth no doubt.

Julia and Jesse are well and send much love to you and Mother.

Sincerely yours,

U.S.  GRANT.

JESSE R. GRANT, ESQ.,
Covington, Ky.

[To Mrs. A.R.  Corbin.]

Long Branch, N.J.,
June 13th, 1872.

DEAR SISTER: 

We got here Tuesday evening and are now pretty well settled.  Can we not expect Mr. Corbin, you, Mary and two children down to spend a few days with us as soon as the latter arrives?  If Mary does not come now, it is not probable that she will get East again this summer.  You can see just as much of her here as you could at your own house; so I think the best arrangement will be for you to come immediately here and all spend the time together at the Branch.  I will go up to meet you in the harbor if informed in time.

Yours truly,

U.S.  GRANT.

P.S.  I learned from a letter from St. Petersburg that Fred. hurried off to Copenhagen to meet Mary before she left, which was to be the 1st day of June.  I infer from this that she should be here in two or three days from now.

[To his brother-in-law, Mr. A.R.  Corbin.  “Nellie” is Mrs. Sartoris.  Mr. Borie is Secretary of the Navy.]

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