. . . . It is well,
too, that the drift of events brings you eastward. You must be aware that the
wonder has been that, having the whole country to choose as a home, you should
settle upon St. Louis. I could understand it, but many others do not. Almost
daily I am asked when the General is coming back to Washington, and always with
the earnest hope that it will be soon and to stay. . . .
SOURCE: Rachel
Sherman Thorndike, Editor, The Sherman Letters: Correspondence Between
General and Senator Sherman from 1837 to 1891, p. 373
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