Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1888 — Mrs. Grant's Quiet Life. [ARTICLE]

Mrs. Grant's Quiet Life.

Chicago Tribunes New York correspondence. Of the living wives of Presidents Mrs. Ulysses 8. Grant leads as quiet a life as Any. She has gone to Florida#ow with the family of ex-Gov. Lelaad Stanford, with whom she :s very intimate. She has cf late been writing reminiscence*. When Col. Fred Grant was asked if she meant to publish them in a hook he replied that her work in that way was entirely a matter of impulse and that there was no certainty as yet whether it would ever be printed. It is snre that she will not lack opportunity. Un counted publishers are bidders for the manuscript, but they are told that she has nothing to sell. The probability is that Mark Twain’s firm, having done so well for her and themselves in the issue of Gen. Grant’s memoirs, willbeable and willing to outbid their rivals. Nevertheless, when Ulysses S. Grant, jr., went into the Cosmopolitan Magazine as Vice-President and stockholder, it was thought in literary circles that Mrs. Grant would help him by putting her reminiscences in that periodical. Col. Grant denies strenuously that hia brother fa being barked in any other way than by a loan of money from his mother, and the authorized asset tion is that, although shares of the stock stand in young Ulycsesi’s name, he is trustee for her. That is a legal technicality to protect him as a bankrupt from the Grant and Ward failure. My careful prediction is that Mrs. Grant will publish something within the year.