ALEXANDRIA, VA.,  August  1st, 1857. MY DEAR SIR: When I wrote you some ten days ago I entertained much uneasiness from the efforts which ...

[PETERSBURG, VA.?],  August  15th, 1857. DEAR SIR: Doctor Harvie sent me two letters from you to Mr. L. E. Harvie, who is absent on a trip...

SHANNON, Wilson, governor of Ohio and of Kansas, b. in Belmont county, Ohio, 24 Feb., 1802; d. in Lawrence, Kan., 31 Aug., 1877. He was grad...

( Private .) MARTINSBURG, VA.,  July  23, 1857. MY DEAR SIR: Though I have ceased to take interest in politics, and hang on loosely to t...

PETERSBURG, [VA.,] July 24th, 1857. MY DEAR SIR: I had a letter from Letcher this morning. He, as other of your friends, sees the insidiou...

BOYDTON, VA.,  July  21, 1857. DEAR HUNTER: I send herewith a letter to our friend Montague, which I must ask you to direct properly and c...

NEAR HAMPTON, [VA.],  16th  November, 1856. MY DEAR HUNTER: I have been thinking about this Southern Convention which is to meet at Savann...

Opera tonight with Ellie and Mrs. Georgey Peters and her papa; Der Freischutz in an Italian version. The Germanism of that opera is so inten...

Nephew of James Mercer Garnett (q. v.), and Robert Selden Garnett (q. v.); born in Virginia, in 1819; graduated from the United States Milit...

BROWNSVILLE, [PA.], June 2, 1855. DEAR SIR: I have just received your favour of the 26th ult. Tomorrow morning I leave for Detroit to meet...

I TRUST that you will pardon me for being here. I do not wish to force my thoughts upon you, but I feel forced myself. Little as I know of C...

First at the Botanic Garden, second at Northumberland House, and third at the Prime Minister's. Got myself presented to Pélissier, who i...

New Haven, Connecticut, Nov. 28. Dear Sir: Permit a friend of liberty and equitable law to address you a few brief thoughts, which I hope ...

WASHINGTON, Thursday, May 29, 1856 Mr. Sumner is more comfortable this morning and the symptoms of erysipelas are subsiding. Drs. Perry, M...