Correspondence (incoming): Grant family, 1890-1899

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will always give us the greatest pleasure for they are useful as well as ornamental & besides that, they will always be souvenirs of our kind friends. I fear we can never thank you enough for your goodness to us & your beautiful gifts. We shall certainly always keep them &

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wear them as great treasures on grand occasions. We hear the cholera is at Prixles-Bains, but hope that the report is not true or that it has caused you no anxiety or inconvenience. We, after a pleasant stay of a day or so at Berne & the same at Zurich, arrived safely

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Vorder-Brühl bei Wien

Sept 6th 1892.

Dear Mrs Stanford,

We have just gotten settled for two weeks stay in the country, before our final return to Vienna, & my first spare moments I am writing you my thanks for the beautiful present you gave me in Ge-

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neva, which I hardly had time to thank you for there. It is so beautiful, that the more I look at it the more I am delighted with it & it keeps most excellent time! My brother is equally delighted with his magnificent watch & is writing Senator Stanford to thank him for it. Our watches

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in Vienna day-before-yesterday, leaving the city almost immediately we arrive here in this charming country place just outside of Vienna so that Papa finds it easy to go every day to his Legation. It seems they are taking great precautions against the cholera

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here & we just escaped having our baggage steamed & ourselves fumigated in crossing the frontier. The law fortunately was not enforced till the day after we crossed it but we had a narrow escape. We hope Senator Stanford has already improved very

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much, from the "cure" & that by another three weeks he will have quite recovered his health. We also trust that you and Mr Lathrop are very well & we hope to see you all before your return to America.

With renewed thanks to you & Sen-

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ator Stanford & with grateful love to you both in which Mama & Papa join me,

I remain, my dear Mrs Stanford, Ever yours most affectionately

Julia Grant

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Ans. May 27/99

Dear Mrs Stanford

I want to have the pleasure myself, of announcing to you my engagement to Prince Cantacuzène of Russia & I feel sure that I can count upon your good wishes in my happiness.

I go home to America in 6 weeks, for the summer. In the early autumn Prince Michael is to follow us, when the wedding

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will take place.

My fiance is 24 years old, an officer in the Czar's Body Guards, & at the head of his family. I hope sometime to present him to you!

With great love Your little friend

Julia Grant

Hotel Vendome

Paris. May 1899.