[WHEELING, VA.?],  May  24th, 1856. DEAR SIR: I have had a somewhat desultory correspondence with my old friend Linn Boyd. 1 He thinks it...

WASHINGTON, [D. C.], June 9th, 1856. DEAR HUNTER: I presume you have heard ere this of the action of the Cincinnati Convention and its utt...

RICHMOND, [VA.], June 11th, 1856. MY DEAR SIR: We are to have a ratification meeting in this City next Friday night; and I write to entrea...

NEW YORK, March 25, 1856. DEAR SIR—I did not reply to the letter which you were so kind as to write me some time ago, because at the time ...

BINGHAMTON, May 31, 1856. MY DEAR ROGERS—Nothing new occurs to me since writing you last. Every day's events tend to satisfy me that t...

NORFOLK, [VA.], May 11, 1856. DEAR HUNTER: I have just returned from a visit to my old (Hampton) county and hope things will end there as ...

HAMPTON, VA., May 15th, 1856. MY DEAR SIR: According to promises I proceed to give you an acc[oun]t of the proceedings of the District Con...

POST AT MUCKLESHUTE PRAIRIE,           NEAR STEILACOONE, W. T., April 20, 1856. MY DEAR COUSIN: By the time this reaches you the excitemen...

NEW YORK, [N. Y.], December 25, 1855 . DEAR SIR: We have been applied to by gentlemen of high standing and respectability who desire to pr...

(Confidential.) WHEELING, [VA.], 15th March, 1856. MY DEAR SIR: I arrived here on Thursday morning on my way home, but resolved to spend a...