( Confidential .) [AMELIA CO., VA.],  November  23 ,  1856. DEAR HUNTER: I was in Richmond yesterday and saw Pryor who has heard from Wash...

LLOYDS, ESSEX [Co. Va.], May 9, 1851. MY DEAR SIR: You will be surprised to hear that your letter has just reached me. The mail comes here...

RICHMOND, [Va.], 13th February 1851. MY DEAR SIR: Permit me to introduce to your acquaintance my esteemed friend Col[onel] Fuqua, a member...

Bright. Tom's rations came in—worth $200— for a month. Gen. Lee writes that it is necessary for the gun-boats to guard the river as fa...

TYRONE PLANTATION, February 9, 1860. MY DEAR SIR: Although well aware of all the troubles, perplexities, worriments and annoyances to whic...