WILLARD'S HOTEL, WASHINGTON,} February 12, 1858. } MY DEAR LYDIA—I was delighted last evening to receive your letter, with one from Lydi...

WASHINGTON, February 12, 1858. MY BELOVED DAUGHTER—I received your beautiful note from Cortland this morning, and was pleased with your af...

This evening with Mr. Ruggles to Dr. Gilman’s, Thirteenth Street, to meet sundry of the professors of our Medical College and consider wheth...

NEW YORK, January 17, 1858. MY DEAR MR. DICKINSON—Upon taking up this morning's  Herald  I was deeply pained to learn that by being th...

BINGHAMTON, December 25, 1856. MY DEAR ROGERS—Myself and family send to you and to Mrs. Rogers the kindly salutations and wishes of the se...

BINGHAMTON, January 24, 1857. MY DEAR SIR—My best acknowledgments are tendered you for numerous favors conveyed with a generous partiality...

BINGHAMTON, March 1, 1857. MY DEAR JUDGE—Your favor of the 27th came duly to hand, and, as the merchants say, "contents noted." ...

BINGHAMTON, April 14, 1857. MY DEAR SIR—I should be more prompt in my correspondence, but it is just now so heavy that if I had as much cl...

STRATFORD-ON-AVON, September 22, 1856. DEAR SIR—I have just visited the birth-place and the tomb of Shakespeare, and knowing somewhat of y...

BALTIMORE, September 27, 1856. MY DEAR GOVERNOR—You and I are, I am glad to know, this time together politically, as we ever have been soc...

Senate Chamber 23d Feb. 1848 MY DEAR ANDREW, The treaty with Mexico has just been laid before the Senate, and read. It will be warmly oppo...

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...

WASHINGTON, July 26, 1856. DEAR GOVERNOR—Would it be possible for you to attend our great mass convention, to be holden on the Tippecanoe ...

LEGATION OF THE UNITED STATES,           LONDON, August 9, 1855. MY DEAR SIR—I have received your note of the 15th ultimo, and have caused a...

BINGHAMTON, October 28, 1855. MY DEAR GOVERNOR—I am such a political heretic in the estimation of many of your friends, that if I were to ...

BOSTON, January 21, 1855. MY DEAR SIR — I this day received, on my return from Washington, an envelope post-marked Binghamton, and contain...

BINGHAMPTON, March 25, 1855. MY DEAR ROGERS— *                    *                    *                    *                    * I a...

ALBANY, June, 1855. MY DEAR SIR—On my return to my residence a few days since, from a professional engagement abroad, I found your favor o...

In a recent issue of the Washington Union , an article appeared, in which, to the astonishment of the country, an attempt was made to dispar...