February 1 Monday – Back in Hartford Sam wrote to Charles Webster, advising him to try and put publishing General Grant’s letters to Mrs. Grant off for a year. He wrote that Livy suggested it and they’d talked it over. 

The public curiosity could be sharply whetted up, by that time; but now the Memoirs supply the public appetite for Grant-material.  If Mrs. Grant would prefer that they come out this coming Xmas, it shall be as she wishes — for her book & General McClellan’s would run along well together.  I think you had better make the contract for the letters, & at the same time ask her her preference in the matter of date of issue.

Sam stuck in a little burr after his signature:

I send this to the house because you leave letters lying around so, at the office, Charles [MTP].