ALS, four pages on two adjoining sheets, 5 x 8, May 29, 1880. Letter to a friend. In part, 'I regret as much as anyone can my inability to visit Honolulu. There were four ladies in my party visiting Mexico. You know ladies do not travel with handbags, but quite the contrary with trunks, and some of them big enough to camp in in a pinch...Please convey to the King my disappointment at not being able to accept his kind invitation and my hope that I will yet have the pleasure.' Grant goes on to make reference to the upcoming 1880 Republican convention, where he tried to get the party's nomination, 'At this writing the klans are marshalling in Chicago to determine upon the direction of the nation. There has never been a campaign in which so much feeling has been exhibited within any party, What is to be the result...I do not pretend to predict. I only hope that the nation may not be the sufferer.' In fine condition, with expected folds, scattered light soiling, a bit of old adhesive residue to the left side of page one, and a coupe trivial brushes to a few letters. COA John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RRAuction COA.
