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great intrusion and
care to you, in the midst
of your grief and of the
responsibilities you had
thrown upon you. In
fact, we saw that you
scarcely had courage
then, to read or answer
letters from Mrs Grant or
anyone else -so we
decided to wait until
the avalanche of letters

should cease to be oppressive to
you. Colonel Grant and I feel
My dear Mrs Stanford, that in the dear
Senator, we lost our best friend in
this life, after our own immediate
dear ones, and realizing how thorough-
ly united you and he were, how
bound up in one another, we
wonder that you lived through it