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for the winter in Washington when your friends will be so glad to welcome you both.

We read with the most intense gratification all the great compliments paid you and yours by the papers, which we think never do you justice and never can in our estimation however great the praise may be, but it is well for California that she has such a statesman! Mrs Grant & the children beg to join me in the most affectionate regards for you & Mrs Stanford yours faithfully Frederick. D. Grant.