All join me in love to Mother and Jennie as well as yourself.  I will be glad to hear from you as often as you may feel like writing.

Yours truly,

U.S.  GRANT.

We met Mrs. Clark and Roberts in Switzerland.  It was like being back home to meet old acquaintances.  Except Senator Conkling and some of our Government officials they are the only Americans I have met that I felt I knew very well.  Please remember me to Senator Frelinghuysen and such other friends as you meet.

A.R.  CORBIN, ESQ.,
Elizabeth, N.J.

HOTEL BRISTOL
5 PLACE VENDOME.

Paris,
Oct. 25th, ’77.

MY DEAR MR. CORBIN: 

Our trip has been a most agreeable one though the time seems long.  I can scarcely realize that but little more than five months have passed since we sailed from Philadelphia.  But we have received nothing but kindness wherever we have been.  In England, as you may have seen, our reception has been as enthusiastic as anything in the States directly after the war.  We are now in Paris for the first time.  As yet I have seen but little of it, though enough to know that it is a most beautiful city.  We shall probably remain here over a month, and then make a trip through Spain and Portugal, and up the Mediterranean, in a naval vessel, stopping at all points of interest on both sides.  Mrs. Grant finds she has brought too much baggage with her and proposes to send two or three trunks back, clothing brought from the States, and wants to send them either to Jennie or Mrs. Sharp to keep until our return.  If they are sent to you I will advise you when they are shipped.

We were disappointed in not getting to Copenhagen while Mary was there.  But Switzerland was so agreeable, and there were so many points of interest to visit that I found it impossible to get there and return to Scotland at the time I had promised.  It is now very doubtful whether we will not have to abandon the idea of going there altogether.  That will depend however upon whether we remain over another year.  This winter we propose to go up the Nile, and may keep on east and return by San Francisco.  But if we return we will stop in Italy until the weather begins to get warm in the Spring and then go north through Austria, North Germany, Russia, Sweden, Norway and back by Denmark and Holland, spend the latter part of the summer again in Switzerland, and go east the following winter.  Jesse will hardly go with us unless we go through this winter.  He does not wish to leave another year before beginning the battle of life.

Give Mrs. Grant’s, Jesse’s and my love to Mother and Jennie, and Mary if she is with you.

I keep very little track of political matters at home, knowing from experience the trouble a “new hand at the bellows” has.  I hope all will be smooth and satisfactory before my return.  I have not yet experienced any discomfort from lack of employment after sixteen years of continuous care and responsibilities.  I may however feel it when I once settle down, though I think not.