Grant's memoirs first edition6/27/2023 ![]() I wanted to leave it to my family as a sort of history, and if they cared to publish it they could do so.” However, as the 1890s continued and Julia finished the manuscript, she began to have second thoughts and explored the possibility of publishing her memoir for profit. ![]() She commented in an 1890 article for the New York World that her memoir was “purely a family volume, and that I want it for the children. Julia initially wanted her reflections to remain private. “I preferred writing to eating or driving or seeing friends.” For Juila, the process of writing a personal memoir was a “panacea for loneliness, a tonic for old age.” “Soon I became an inveterate scribbler,” she commented. Soon the idea emerged of writing a memoir, the first one to be written by a First Lady. Grant, who would listen and write his mother’s reflections on paper. ![]() Within a year of his death, however, Julia began collecting her thoughts and sharing them with her eldest son, Frederick D. “I thought my life had been lived, for we had been inseparable,” she recalled in 1900. Grant, her husband of thirty-seven years, died in 1885. ![]() Julia Dent Grant was devastated when Ulysses S. The front cover of a first edition copy of Julia Dent Grant's Personal Memoirs (1975). ![]()
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