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Senator Daniel S. Dickinson to Lydia Knapp Dickinson, Sunday Evening, April 2, 1850

WASHINGTON, April 2, 1850.        
Sunday Evening.

MY DEAREST LYDIA—I am now expecting to start with the Committee* to-morrow morning. We go via Richmond, Petersburg, Wilmington, and so on to Charleston. I do not intend to go further than Charleston, but return from there and try to reach home the forepart of next week—I hope as early as Tuesday or Wednesday, but will write you on the way South. At present, I am very much pressed for time. Give my love to all the dear ones, and ask them to be patient till I come.

Very affectionately,
D. S. DICKINSON.
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* The Committee appointed to accompany the remains of Mr. Calhoun to South Carolina.

SOURCE: John R. Dickinson, Editor, Speeches, Correspondence, Etc., of the Late Daniel S. Dickinson of New York, Vol. 2, p. 428-9

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