Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-06-13

sLEEPS-NOT ANY OF HIS Ms. SEEN BY
PARTNERSHIPS ASsIsrANTS-THK STATE OF
HIS HEALTH.

From the New York Sun, 11th.
Gen. Grant began work on his book about a
year ago, after the Grant & Ward failure. He
wrote the first volume with his own hand and
completed 1t late in the winter He at once
began to prepare the second volume and had
written about one-third of 1t when his illness
became SO severe that death was momentarily
expected. When he had recovered sufficiently
to again interest himself in his work he asked
his publishers to supply him with a stenogra-
pher, and then he began to devote an hour, and
sometimes nearly two hours, every morning to
debating his memoirs. The stenographer
always found him in his bedroom, the second
story apartment over the front parlor, whose
mont wall is bent outward into great bow
window, seated at little table with a few notes
Pencled on Drown maptlla paper. Sometimes
ne did not look at these notes at all, but talked
as ne might have done to friend. His dicta-
ton was very rapid indeed, and he seldom hesi-
tated for a word or mode of expression. The
stenograper copied his shorthand notes on
were subsequently Submitted to the general,
VINO ran his eye over them, changing a word
some paragraph or adding wholly new matter.
publishers
OF the second volume on legal cap with pen and
Ink, but the copy went to the compositors either
In Col. Fred. Grants handwriting or in type
writer copy. 1t is singular fact that the
c0mpositors, who have now nearly completed
the type setting of the entire two volumes, have
never seen Gen. Grants handwriting Had the
generals sheets been sent away from the house
IL Is doubtful whether they would have evergot
PACK there again. Their value as curiosities
to all who could get access to them. Col. Fred.
Grant or the publishers stenographer have
copied each page and left the manuscript in the
generals home.
Inc stenographer who has attended the gen.
erai during the past few weeks is Mr.. Dawson,
VI Mtashlngton, weli-known Congressional re-
haA no VT
10 Inc apartment which is at once the generals
beoroom and workshop. There is a doorway
room, but a bookcase blocks it up, and when
the general goes into the hall bedroom he has
t 70 reach II 6y going into the hall and then
talns the collection of books Of reference used
by the general in refreshing his memory and
securing as hnag oates and figures for his work It
erence have been loaned to him from the
War department This is an error. During all
journal, in which his secretary entered the
important occurrences of the day, and posted
the the, letters, documents, charts, and what
hesyily:o9and blank books, sue such as are are
soon as one was filled it was sent to the gen,
erals home and a new one was taken up.
Thus thirty of these great books were filled,
generals military doings In that war. 1t was
TO these books, library in themselves that
Ien Grant most frequently turned, and it is
from them that he obtained the data with
which he tells his friends he has tried to pro-
vide the exact truth, regardless of whom 1t
hurts or helps. II, as doubtless will be the case
some OF his statements are questioned, the
proof of their correctness will be obtainable
from the documents aud record in these great
tones. In this room the stenographer sits
while the general looks over the galley proofs
sent to him by his publishers. If he sees on the
sheets something that seems to him to need ex-
PLANTATION or addition, he calls the stenog-
rapher in.
The general is very sick man. He bears up
herolcally, but his appearance shocks those
who see him for the first time since he was
taken ill. A great swelling, bigger than mans
INST, almost twice as big, in fact, has appeared
on his neck under his right ear. His face has
lost little of its natural fleshiness but his body
is frightfully emaciated and his bony wrists
and hands betray the fact to visitors. Every
now and then as he talks his throat becomes
filled with the discharge from the sore in the
back OF his mouth, and he has to stop talking
and rid himself of the troublesome accumula-
ton. 1t is supposed that the swelling in the side
of his neck is sympathetic result OF the trouble
in his throat. The doctors still insist that the
general is slowly dying Of the consequences of
y cancerous growth there. Gen. Grant spends
his nights and nearly the whole of every day in
this second story front room. He sits by the
little table near the bow window in a huge,
also his bed, for he cannot lie down. His man
Harrison draws up another padded chair, upon
which the general rests his feet and legs while
he settles back in the big chair and sleeps. He
sleeps In nearly an upright position. Were he
to lie down he would choke.