RICHMOND, April 5,
1861.
MY DEAR COLONEL:
After great delay my
speech in the convention has but now seen the light. I hasten to send you
the paper containing it, and will, as soon as I can have it so printed, send
you a pamphlet copy for the library. I send a paper also to your mother. It is
destined to a large circulation, which would have been quadrupled had it been
published at an earlier day.
We are still
listening to speeches, but go to serious work to-day—the work of voting. I
think the prospect is that we shall adopt an ultimatum, and there rest for the
present. I hope it may be a strong one. The people of the State are becoming very
restless. I wish that the speech could be extensively published in the North
and West. The convention will adjourn in some ten days.
Gardie has had the
measles at home, and Julia has it here at Miss Pegram's school. They are both
doing well. Gardie, I hope is over it, and Julia, without a change, will soon
be. The other children I suppose will have it. I almost wish it. I hope that
your wife is perfectly well, and that your mother enjoys this fine weather.
SOURCE: Lyon
Gardiner Tyler, The Letters and Times of the Tylers, Volume 2, p.
630
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