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LETTERS OF ULYSSES S. GRANT TO HIS FATHER AND HIS YOUNGEST SISTER,
1857-78

Edited by his Nephew

JESSE GRANT CRAMER

With Portraits

1912







PREFACE


There has of late years been a tendency, as a result of the teachings