Ulysses S. Grant Autograph Letter Signed. One page, front and back, 4.5" x 6.75", [Mexico City]; [April 24, 1881]. Addressed to Nevada Senator [John P.] Jones while Grant was in Mexico City working to develop a railroad from Oaxaca to Mexico City. While there, he sent a letter, via Jones, to President Garfield criticizing his choice of cabinet appointments to which Garfield responded acrimoniously a few days later. New York Senators Conkling and Platt resigned in protest due to these appointments and Vice President Chester Arthur was banished from Cabinet meetings. Presumably the content of this letter is in response to these occurrences. It reads in full: "I write to you in answer to the letter of the 30th of March, signed by the Vice President, Senator Conkling, & yourself, and only just rec'd. I regret exceedingly I did not get it at Galveston, in time possibly to have had some effect. – Please read my letter to you, and the one to Garfield, to the signers of the letter of the 30th , and use your combined judgments as to whether the latter should be delivered or not. I am likely to remain here another month. The work I am engaged upon is one which I believe is to result in great benefits to my own country, and of course to this. No personal consideration would tempt me to engage in what I am now doing, but I believe sincerely that by building these people up we will establish a market for our products which will stave off, for years at least, a panic which is otherwise inevitable from the rapidity with which we are going in." Signed, "U.S. Grant." COA from John Reznikoff included. Condition: Smoothed folds. HID03101062020 © 2020 Heritage Auctions | All Rights Reserved