Washington, D.C.,
Feby. 10th, 1868.
DEAR FATHER:
The memorandums you left with me relative to bounty due two needy persons in Covington I attended to soon after you left here. The answer of the Paymaster General was that under no circumstances could he take up claims for bounty out of turn; therefore, it was not satisfactory to you. I neglected to answer at the time and the matter escaped my memory until now.
I spoke to Secretary McCulloch about giving Mrs. Porter a clerkship in the Treasury and he promised me he would do it, but has not yet. Now, I fancy, I would not have much influence, and if I had, would be very careful about using it.
The family are well and send much love to Mother, Jennie and yourself.
Yours truly,
U.S. GRANT.
[March 4, 1869, General Grant was inaugurated President of the United States.
Written to his sister Virginia, Mrs. A.R. Corbin.]