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My Dear Julia

from First Ladies by Adam Tressler

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Julia Grant

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A letter from Ulysses S. Grant

August 31, 1844

My Dear Julia,
Your two letters of July and August have just been received and read you can scarcely imagine with how much pleasure. I have waited so long for an answer to my three letters that I began to despair of ever receiving a letter from you. But it came at last and how agreeable the surprise!

Take example in punctuality by me Julia. I have received your letters only today and now I am answering them. But I can forgive you since the tone of your last letter, the one in pencil, is so conclusive of constancy.

I am sorry to hear that your mother thinks there is nothing serious in our engagement, with me nothing is more serious or half as pleasant to think of. Since the arrival of your letters I have read them over and over again and will continue to do so until another comes….

You say julia that you often dream of me! Do tell me some of your good ones, don't tell me any more of the bad ones. But it is an old saying that dreams go by contraries, so I shall hope you will never find me in the condition you dreamt I was in.

And to think that while I am writing this the ring I used to wear is on your hand! Parting with that ring, Julia, was the strongest evidence I could have given you, in the way of a present, of the depth and sincerity of my love for you. Write me soon...

Take a little ride and put your letter in the post office. and on the road think of some of the conversations we used to have when we rode together

Most truly and devotedly your lover,
Ulysses

P.S. find some name beginning with “S” for me Julia. You know I have an "S" in my name and don't know what it stands for

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from First Ladies, released May 28, 2021

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