[Rarebooks] F/S Autographed Letter Signed A Vist to the Grant White House

[Garry R Austin]

-- We offer for your consideration the following, net to all and 
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This letter details a visit to the President U. S. Grant White House and 
other places.

From
Austin's Antiquarian Books
PO Box 730
Wilmington, Vt. 05363
mail at austinsbooks.com
802 464-8438

Nettie ????; Autographed Letter signed, (Als); Washington D. C. Saturday 
Night (c1869-1873). Four pages, orchid ink on plain Stationary to "Dear 
Sarah". Nettie begins to relate news from her trip to Washington. The 
train was "two hours behind time" "got good rooms", "breakfast a little 
after nine", They go out sightseeing. She comments on the weather and 
how nice it is, she is surprised by the number of women in "muffs".  
They (she & Curtiss) were in the Capitol & Greenhouses for some hours 
and would call on "Judge Cotton" in the afternoon. The Judge immediately 
calls a carriage and takes her to the White House. After the East Room, 
in the hallway she is introduced to General Dent; The general calls a 
servant to take her and her friend through the rooms not open to the 
public, the red, blue, & green rooms and others, She runs into Gen. 
Baberch ?. Next to the carriage & the Treasury Building, Judge Cotton 
gets them into the banking department, they observe the counting of the 
gold & money; off again "to all the points he could think of"; met the 
Senator from Iowa, "very agreeable & a nice looking man"; She declines 
the Judges invitation to go to a literary event in a private home, 
"though I know he would do all he could to make it pleasant" . The Judge 
will join them for church Sunday morning, "a good thing as probably he 
would not go otherwise". She has had too much sight-seeing.  Her 
reference to Gen. Dent was Gen. Frederick Tracy Dent the Military 
Secretary to the President U. S. Grant from 1869-1873. I was not able to 
determine the identity of the other general mentioned nor do we have any 
idea who "Judge Cotton" may have been.
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