St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-01-12

She cannot read a great deal. She does
not wear glasses, however, and to out
ward appearance her eyes are not
weak. She walks easily and firmly, and
She tells me she is in good health. She
Is a good talker Her voice is low and
pleasant, and she grows vivacious as
She reviews some of the wonderful
events of her career. She is thoroughly
Wrapped up in her family, her children
and her grandchildren and in her love
for Gen. Grant. In speaking of him
She refers to him as THE General"
She has a good memory, and she tells
many interesting stories concerning
him. No married couple ever lived
closer to each other than did the Gen.
and Mrs. Grant. She was, perhaps, his
only real confidantThe two were one
fin almost everything, and their life
was a most beautiful one. For several
years Mrs. Grant has been engaged in
writing a book of her "reminiscences.
This will cover more than fifty years,
and it will be full of written history.
It will tell of hundreds Of interest
Ing things about Grant and the men
connected with him which have never
been published. 1t will describe her
four years in camp with the general,
will tell the stories of her eight years
in the White house and will give the
Manderings of this Penelope with her
Ulysses IL the tour around the world
The book is already written. 1t will
contain more than 100000 words, and
though no arrangements have been
I,
given to the press at any time Gen.
Grant left a number of papers and
valuable letters. He also left a diary
which contains a great many interest
Ing entries. Mrs. Grant has about 800
of his love letters and there are other
valuable manuscripts. His state pa
pers, however, will probably be issued
In a separate volume by Col. Fred
Grant. Mrs. Grants book will be made
up chiefly of her own "reminiscences,
and they will be interesting in the OK
IRENE.
MRS. GRANT AND Ii HUNG.
During my stay in North China about
year ago bought at Tientsin a neg
ative which was taken of Gen. Grant
Grants stay in Tientsin. Copies from
this negative are very rare, and 1 took
three photographs with me to Mrs.
Grant. AS she looked over them she
said:
remember very well when this
picture was taken. Ii Hung Chang
and Gen. Grant became great friends
during our stay in China and the two
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Of the generals death. At this time I'll
Hung Chang wrote me long letter of
coincidence, and at the time of LADY,
Lis death l wrote him. Some letters
passed between us during the late war
between China and Japan. I had ex-
pected the Chinese would be victorious
and even after the first successes of
the japanese L thought the Chinese, on
account of their enormous numbers
would finally overwhelm them. At the
time we were in China the relations of
the two countries were strained and
Gen. Grant advised Ii that war should
be prevented if possible. wrote to Lii
Hung Chang at the time he was shot
at Hiroshima, saying / was sorry for
him, and that I hoped by the time my
letter reached him he would be entirely
recovered. He replied to this and sent
me the terms of peace which he had
proposed to the Japanese, and after
This book giving the history of the
peace negotiations
RECEPTION IN ENGLAND.
I here asked Mrs. Grant as to some
pf her experiences in Europe and in
reply she chatted Interestingly con-
serning seme Ct the great courts which