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. Condition: Note and card are both very good.
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. Condition: Note and card are both very good.
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