Stanton, Edwin McMasters (1814-1869) to Edwards Pierrepont
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC00872 Author/Creator: Stanton, Edwin McMasters (1814-1869) Place Written: Washington City Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 13 November 1868 Pagination: 3 p. : docket ; 20 x 13 cm. Order a Copy
re: Grant's cabinet, appointment & health, Stanton died the following year.
Washington City Nov. 13 1868
My Dear Sir
Your letter reached me here on my return home from Baltimore where I had been making a visit for rest and a change of air. For your kind appreciation of my political exertions, made under much debility and suffering, please accept my thanks. No blow was struck in the campaign more efficiently that was dealt by your hand in the Cooper institute.
During my absence General Grant returned home, but, confined to my house, I have not seen him. All sorts of people will of course volunteer to make his Cabinet for him, but it is my opinion that he will reserve that labor for himself, and that you will be his chosen adviser from New York. If you should like the Attorney Generalship I would be glad to [2] aid you for that or any other post to the utmost extent of my ability. And I hope that you will make no sort of scruple on the subject, but practice the same frankness that has always distinguished your intercourse with me.
Since the labor and anxiety of the campaign ended, my health and strength have somewhat improved, and altho it may take me a while to regain my former standard of vigor, there appears no reason to doubt its early restoration.
The children are interested in their schools (except Bessie whose maternal anxieties are kept up by her dolls) and they seem to be progressing quite as past as can be desired.
I hope Mrs. & Miss Pierrepoint had a pleasant summer and autumn at the Highlands. Were not the Season at hand [3] for returning to town I would rejoice to spend a few days there, and mark the progress of your rural labors.
I beg you to give my kindest regards to Mrs. & Miss Pierrepoint & believe me to be ever
Sincerely Your Friend
Edwin M Stanton
Hon. Edwards Pierrepoint
5th Avenue
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