Mr. Bruce has the
floor for Monday. The Peace Conference plan has gone the way of all the
Capulets. The committee makes it the basis of a new scheme, and Baldwin
yesterday made an appeal to me to sustain it, as they had sought to make it
conform to my views. I shall most probably present my own project. The public
mind is undergoing great changes. Summers' speech will be out on Monday, and
mine the next day. They are called the great speeches of the session. Tyler, of
the Enquirer, tells me that the demand for mine increases daily, while that for
Summers' falls off. I shall distribute copies freely throughout my district.
Have you any information of what is the sentiment of Charles City? New Kent is
right.
I stopped just here
to await the mail, under hope of a letter from you. The mail has arrived and my
hope is realized. You can scarcely imagine the anxiety with which I opened it.
I have not heard from home before since I left. The storm had cut off all
intercommunication until Friday. By Capt. Hill I wrote you Saturday, sending
down a box containing the lace. I hope you received it. I dined on Friday at J.
T. Brown's, son-in-law to Mr. Willcox, of Petersburg. Mrs. B.'s father, Mr.
Southall, is a member of the convention. Mrs. Brown discharged the duties well,
—— made many enquiries about you. I wrote you that I had been up to see Julia.
Mrs. Pegram speaks highly of her. Mr. McFarland, on hearing she was at Mrs.
Pegram's, said he would send his daughter to see her. He has been very
attentive. I hope she will be here to-day to see me. . .
I forgot to say that
Mr. Ritchie showed me a letter from Mrs. Ritchie, expressing high praise of my
letter of a month ago. Le Pays comes to me regularly. I send a letter from
Robert to Gardie. Read it for him.
SOURCE: Lyon
Gardiner Tyler, The Letters and Times of the Tylers, Volume 2, p.
629
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