well do otherwise. She always enquires very particularly after you evry mail.
Give my love dearest Julia to your Pa & Ma and all the rest of the family. Tell Fred. to be a good boy and recollect his pa and mind evry thing his grand pa & ma tells him. Kiss him and Ulys for me and write a great deel about them. I will close here for the present hoping that before the Mail closes we will get the mail which has just come up and then I can let you know if I get anything.
Adieu dear wife
ULYS.
P. S. There is not a particle of hope of geting the Mail that come up in time to add anything to this If the Mail should come in time to give me five minuets I will write you another letter if it is only to tell you whether or not I have heard from you. Do not fret dear Julia about me. I am perfectly well and have entirely recovered from those attacks of cramp which I had a few weeks since. They amounted to nothing except they were painful. Adieu again dear dear Julia.
Your affectionate husband
ULYS
ALS, DLC-USG.
Columbia Barracks O. T.
January 4th 1853
DEAR WIFE;
The Mail has arrived and brought me a long letter from you in which you give me a long account of our dear little ones. How much I should like to see them! I had a long dream about Fred.
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Publication information:
Book title: The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant: 1837-1861.
Volume: 1.
Contributors: John Y. Simon - Editor.
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press.
Place of publication: Carbondale, IL.
Publication year: 1967.
Page number: 281.
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