Grant returned time and again to this hotel in the 9th arrondissement of Paris. The building houses a hotel to this day. Thursday, May 31, 1917:
Arrived in Paris about 9 A.M. After saying good-bye to Mr. Symons and Miss Mullen we left for our various hotels. Tish Libby and I got a nice room at the Hotel Silvia run by the same management as that running Hotel du Palais where most of the boys stayed. After reporting at the office where numerous papers were signed we spent our time in seeing Paris. The location of the Hotel Silvia was something like this:
The location of our hotel explains pretty well our situation. We were centrally located where we could see everything easily without moving very far from our source.
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