The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-07-26
GRANTS. LETTER
He Leaves a Remarkable
Document With His Ply
stefan, Or. Douglas.
incidents NJ Mount NcGre.Or
and Elsewhere in Regard
10 the Dead Man.
The Funeral VIII be n Mill
tary one with General Han
cock I'm Com maDd.
Some Objections to New York
City Being the BURIAL
Place. - General Notes.
THE DEAD GENERAL.


Mount McGregor, n. V, July 25.-
While in conversation to-day with the
correspondent of the Associated
Press, DIR. Douglas very kindly read
to the writer the following remarka-
BILE document which was written by
General Grant, in Dr. Douglas pres
ence, on Thursday, July 2.
THE LETT Err, VERBATIM.
II ask you not to show this to ANY,
one, unless to the physicians you con-
suit with, until the end; particularly [
want it kept from my family. If
known to one man the papers will
it and they (the family win get ii.
II would only distress them almost
beyond endurance to know it and by
reflex would distress me.
81 have not changed my mind since
| wrote you before in the same strain;
now, however, | know that gain
strength some days but when | do go
back, it is beyond where | started to
improve. think the chances are
very decidedly in favor of your being
able TO keep me alive until the
change of weather towards winter.
OF course, there are contingencies
that might arise at any time that
would carry me oil very suddenly: the
most probable of these is choking.
Under the circumstances life is not
worth living.
81 am very thankful flor thankful,
glad was written, but scratched out
and thankful substituted) TO have been
saved this long, because it has enabled
me to practically complete the work
in which take so much interest.
cannot stir up strength to review it
and make additions and subtractions
that would suggest themselves to me
and are not likely to suggest them
selves to anyone else.
"Under the above circumstances
will be happiest, the most pain | can
avoid. If there is 10 be any extra
ordinary cures, such as some people
believe there is to be, II will develop
itself. | would say, therefore, to you
and your colleague, to make me a.
comfortable as you eau.
"If il is within Gods providence
that | should go now, am ready
to obey his call without q
murmur. should prefer 10 90 now
to enduring my present suffering for
a single day without hope of recovery
As have stated, am thankful tor the
providential extension to my time to
enable me to continue my work.
81 am further thankful because it has
enabled me to see, for myself, the hap
py harmony which suddenly sprung
up between those engaged, but few
short years ago, in deadly conflict.
alt has been an inestimaDle blessing
TO me to.hcar the grand expression
towards me by persons from all part
Of our country; from people of al
nationalities; of confederate and ma
tional troops alike; of soldiers organ
izations; of mechanical, scientific, re
ligious and other societies; embraoin,
almost every citizen in the land. The.
have brought JOY TO my heart, If the,
have not effected cure. So to yoI
and your colleagues, | acknowledg
my Indebtedness for having brough
me through the valley of the shadoN
of death TO enable me to witness thes
things. (Signed)
u. S. GRANT.
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