Coalter and Woodson came home today, after a visit of several weeks to Dardenne prairie. 61 They came down in Barton's little wagon, br...

Elms Farm, August 23, 1851, Thursday morning, five o'clock-? A little foggy, but will be a fine day. MY DEAR SIR, — At noon yesterday ...

[Franklin, August 31, 1851.] Sunday evening. MY DEAR SIR, — This has been a lonely and rather unhappy day. Since last evening the pain in ...

Franklin, September 8, 1851. MY DEAR SIR, — I was delighted to receive your letter of the 2d, and to find you are at home, safe and well. ...

Revere House, Friday. September 13, 1851. MY DEAR SIR, — It has been suggested as possible, that some of those who will dine on the common...

Marshfield, Green Harbor, September 15, 1851.           Monday morning, eight o'clock. MY DEAR FRIEND, — Since I wrote you last, I have ...

Boston, September 22, 1851. MY DEAR SIR, — I am desirous of placing these trifles 1 in your possession, as a gift from my own hand; the m...

Marshfield, September 26, 1851. Friday, two P. M. MY DEAR SIR, — Here I am once more, and here, I assure you, I am most happy to be. After...

Marshfield, September 27, 1851. MY DEAR SIR, — My speech of the 7th of March, 1850 , is probably the most important effort of my life, and...

(EXTRACT.) Marshfield, September 28, 1851. MY DEAR SIR, — I heard with great pleasure of your arrival at Washington in safety and good healt...

WASHINGTON, June 24, 1852. MY DEAR SIR, — I left home on Saturday, stopped over Sunday in New York, and came on on Monday. At Philadelphia...

WASHINGTON, June 24, 1852. When the Whig Convention nominated Scott, they killed off those who had been most clamorous for slavery, and th...

WASHINGTON, June 29, 1852. Mr. Clay is dead: he expired between eleven and twelve o'clock this morning. . . . Probably no public man e...

JULY 8, 1852. I see by the telegraphic report, that at a meeting of the Native-American party at Trenton, N. J., this week, Mr. Webster wa...

I know too well the strength and depth of your antislavery principles, and have been too recently assured of your anxiety to utter your full...

Marshfield, August 1, 1851. MY DEAR SIR,—I am getting along pretty well, although a violent change in the weather, from hot to cold, has p...

Boston, August 5, 1851. MY DEAR SIR,—I came to this city yesterday, and found it and all the hotels so crowded with strangers, that I wish...

Boston, August 6, 1851. MY DEAR SIR,—Your letter of the 2d was only received yesterday; it was directed to New York, whither the newspaper...

Franklin, N. H., August 10, 1851. MY DEAR SIR,—I came to these regions on the morning of Thursday the 7th, thinking that the mountain air ...

Franklin, August, 19, 1851. MY DEAR SIR,—Although I date this letter at Franklin, and shall send it thither to be mailed, yet, in truth, I...