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THBUlysses S. Grant ANS, June 30, 1885
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Grant, Ulysses S. (1822-1885). Note on both sides of 3 x 5 in. piece of paper, plus elaborate calling card with flowers and eagle on a shield on top. Banner at bottom of shield says "Gen. Grant."
Note reads: "The atmosphere here enables me to live in comparitive[sic] comfort while I am being treated or while nature is taking its course with my disease. I have no idea that I should have been able to come here now if I had remained in the City. It is doubtful indeed whether I would have been alive. Now I would be much better able to move back than I was to come at the time I did." Signed "U.S. Grant" and dated "June 30th / 85."
As Grant was dying of throat cancer, the heat and humidity of the city made it difficult physically. His doctors recommended he move upstate, and a family friend offered his cottage at the top of Mount McGregor, which Grant gladly accepted. Likely this note refers to this move; the General would be dead in less than a month, July 23, 1885.
Consignor relates that the note was purchased at an auction in New Haven, CT, in the 1960s along with other U.S. Grant and Presidential memorabilia.
Note and card are both very good.Condition
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