But I must bring these desultory remarks to a break-off. So, begging pardon once more for transgressing the limits of formality, and hoping you may live to see the verification of many of my remarks, I have the pleasure of signing myself
THE SECRETARY OF YOUR AUNT RACHEL
P.S. If you sh^d write again, please use white paper; it almost gives me the "blues" to read your letter.
Letters of Ulysses S. Grant to His Father and His Youngest Sister, 1857-78 · The Wunder Library — complete classics, free to read, with narration.