nd the children.

Yours very truly,

U.S. GRANT.

P.S. It is very kind in Mr. Clark, and the gentlemen associated with
him, to send the message you convey from them; but they must recollect
that I had the harness on for sixteen years and feel no inclination to
wear it again. I sincerely hope that the North will so thoroughly rally
by next election as to bury the last remnant of secession proclivities,
and put in the Executive chair a firm and steady hand, free from
Utopian ideas purifying the party electing him out of existence.

Hotel Liverpool, Paris,
May 25th, '78.

MY DEAR MR. CRAMER:

I am now for the first time able to fix approximately the time of my
visit to Copenhagen. We shall leave here on Saturday, three weeks from
to-day, or on the following Tuesday. We shall stop at The Hague three
or four days. Jesse leaves for home so as to take the steamer of the
fourth of June from Liverpool. Our party therefore will consist only of
Mrs. Grant with her maid and myself. If your arrangements are made to
be away from Copenhagen at the time mentioned above, I beg that you
will not change your plans. Should you be there, we shall probably
remain over about one week. Should you be away, we shall stop only a
couple of days.

I have not heard directly from Elizabeth for some time; it is probably
my own fault, for Mr. Corbin is very prompt in answering every letter;
but Bucky writes regularly every week from New York, so I hear
indirectly. When you write home give my love to all of them at
Elizabeth.

Very truly yours,

U.S. GRANT.

P.S. I go from Copenhagen directly to Stockholm. I am not personally
acquainted with our present Minister there, though I once appointed him
to a South American Mission.

U.S.G.

Paris, France,
June 3d, '78.

MY DEAR MR. CRAMER:

Your letter of the 31st of May is just received. I should have written
to you within a day or two to inform you of a slight change of plan,
which will bring me into Copenhagen from ten days to two weeks later
than I wrote you I should be there, even if I had not received your
letter. To save retracing my steps, as I should be obliged to do by the
routes laid out in my last letter, I now intend to go from The Hague to
Berlin and visit a few of the German cities before going to Denmark.
From Copenhagen I shall go by water to Norway, thence to Sweden, St.
Petersburg, Moscow, and to Vienna.

I shall be very glad indeed to see Mary and the chi