Correspondence (incoming): Grant, Ida, 1892-1899

[notation: Aug. 1899]

New York.

Tuesday.

Dear Mrs Stanford

I trust you will be interested in reading these enclosed letters and articles and that you will remem[ber]

[left hand side] [remem]ber that my dear child was most touched and grateful to you & will always love you so much.

Affectionately yours

Ida H. Grant.

[right hand side] P. S. I enclose addressed envelope for you to return these without trouble.

I. H. G.

I send the wedding cake it will be a pleasant souvenir. I.

[notation: Ansd Dec 14/1899]

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.

wished that I rented it, and came up here, to be near my dear boy, & for change of air, as I was quite ill with influenza. I expected to return to the city where I wanted to see you, but have remained here, all the time. I have thought of you so often our dear kind friend and Julia writes me that your charming gift is such an ornament & valued treasure in her home at St Petersburg. We hope you keep very well, and I beg you to accept my warm regards & heartfelt thanks for all your kindness. My dear husband, who is nobly doing his

because of my own absence. I most unexpectedly went to Chicago to see my sister, one day after Mrs Grant went to Washington. While I was there the agent had such an unusually good offer for my little house [ ?]

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