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ans 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 Jon how very sorry
I was not able to see
Jon again, in N.Y.
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because of my own absense--I most
unexpectedly, went to
Chicago--{ ?} my sister,
the day after Mrs Grant
went to Washington--
While I was there the
[agent ?} had such an un-
usually good offer for
my letter { ?}