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Dec 14/189?

West Point, Dec. 6th

My dear Mrs Stanford

I received your brief
little message, and
hasten to write you
my thanks for the kind
thought of me, and to
tell you how very sorry
I was not able to see
you again, in N.Y.

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because of my own
absence. I most
unexpectedly, went to
Chicago to see my sister,
the day after Mrs Grant
went to Washington.
While I was there the
agent had such an unu-
sually good offer for
my little house Just