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Elberon
June 20th/86
My dear Mrs Stanford
Mrs Grant requests me to write and say that, as she is settled in her cottage here, she would be most happy to have a visit of a week, from you and Senator Stanford beginning with the 14th of July, as she
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thinks that a pleasant time for you to be here and that perhaps you would find the sea air very pleasant.
Mrs Grant will be really disappointed if you cannot find it convenient to come if only for a few days. Our house-hold is a very quiet one but always delighted to
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see you and the Senator. Mrs Grant bids me say, that she will impatiently await a favorable answer, and she and Colonel Grant and I send warmest regards for you and Senator Stanford hoping that we shall see you by the 14th of July, I am very