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that my place now, is near my [[Nellie Grant|Nellie]]. If that dreadful panic had not come last year, I would have made a fine sale of my dear beautiful book, and if I had, I was going to empty the whole of it (one hundred thousand dollars) into your lap, in exchange for your charming sunny house in Washington, and how I would have enjoyed having all my young people with me, but it was willed otherwise and now, I go to the children in place of their coming to me. I go to the [[Frederick D. Grant|Col]]'s for a while and then to [[Nellie Grant|Nellie]]'s for a longer visit. [[U. S. Grant Jr.|Ulysses]] with his family are still at San Diego, as is my [[Jesse R. Grant|Jesse]] with his family who are so happy just now in occupying their pretty little house I have given them. Their letters are so full of love and gratitude that I feel more than happy that I