Washington 23d June 1848 MY DEAR DAUGHTER, If a long interval lies between the date of this and your last, you must attribute it to the fa...

NEW YORK, [N. Y.], June 23, 1855. MY DEAR SIR: Desirous of urging, most strongly, upon you the necessity of your coming to New York to par...

CHARLESTON, [S. C.], 8th June, 1855. MY DEAR HUNTER: Some weeks since I rec[eive]d y[ou]r letter and thank you for y[ou]r efforts in behal...

WASHINGTON, January 20, 1851. GENTLEMEN—I thank you most sincerely for your esteemed favor of the 5th ultimo, which I had the pleasure to ...

FULTENHAM, April 24, 1850. SENATOR DICKINSON— Dear Sir —Yours of the 17th inst. came to hand by due course of mail. I sincerely hope you...

Christmas. Fahrenheit stood this morning eighteen degrees below freezing point. A rare degree of cold in England, exceeding any we have felt...

September 27, 1860. I am much obliged to you for the copy of your brother's speech. It is an able production and marks him, as he had ...

ALEXANDRIA, Nov. 3, 1860. . . . This is a Saturday evening and I am seated at the office table where the Academic Board has been all week ...

If the time of the Senate permitted, I would feel it to be my duty to call for the reading of the mass of petitions on the table, in order t...

ASHEBORO, May 28, ’61 *          *          *          *          *          *          * I think there is no reliable date on which to ba...

ASHEBORO, May 21, 1861 .  Abolitionism and Democracy, aided and instigated by the Devil, have forced everybody under the one or the other of...

Seminary , Jan. 24, i860. . . . Things along here about as I expected. We have had many visitors – ladies with children, who part with ...

Seminary near Alexandria, December 23, 1859. Dear Tom : I received last night a Leavenworth paper addressed in your handwriting and I ...

Seminary, Alexandria, La ., Dec. 16,1859. . . . I wrote you and Minnie from New Orleans as I told you I would. I did start back in the ...

Rienzi, Tishomingo Co., Miss., June 9, 1862. Saturday morning the 5th inst. the colonel and myself started for a little pleasure ride a...

Gen. Longstreet is now in command of Gen. Smith's late department, besides his own corps. Richmond is safe. Our papers contain a...

Saint-Virain, Avignon, October 31, 1862. My Dear Sir : Allow me to thank you most warmly for your long and interesting letter, which,...

On dropping in at the Consulate to-day, I found the skippers of several English vessels who are anxious to clear out, lest they be detained...

I visited several of the local companies, their drill-grounds and parades; but few of the men were present, as nearly all are under orders ...