He had not created the Post-Dispatch, or even met the beautiful woman who became his wife.

He was a youngster of five or six and twenty, revisiting the scenes of his boyhood on the beautiful blue Danube, and taking in Paris for a lark.
III I first met General Grant in my own house.

I had often been invited to his house.

As far back as 1870 John Russell Young, a friend from boyhood, came with an invitation to pass the week-end as the President's guest at Long Branch.

Many of my friends had cottages there.