ASHLAND, May 23, 1848. MY DEAR SIR, — I received your kind letter of the 19th instant, and I feel greatly obliged by the confidence in me ...

NEW YORK, June 9, 1848. MY DEAR SIR, — The mis-representatives of the Whig party have at length consummated the greatest act of national i...

NEW YORK, June, 1848. MY DEAR MR. CLAY, — I write to you in the fullness of my heart, not to condole with you, for though I feel all the p...

ASHLAND, June 22, 1848. MY DEAR SIR, — I wished much to see you, and hope soon to meet you. I got your letter from Choles' on your way...

ASHLAND, June 28, 1848. GENTLEMEN, — I received your favor adverting to certain reports in circulation in respect to me, with regard to t...

Fort Hill 8th July 1847 MY DEAR SIR, There is not much to be added about politicks to what I wrote you last. The difference between North ...

Fort Hill 24th July 1847 MY DEAR SIR, We have had little of publick interest of late. The Mexican war has been at a stand. There is ever[y...

Fort Hill 6th Sept 1847 MY DEAR SIR, I agree with you, that the political condition of all western Europe is very unsettled, and especiall...

ASHLAND, July 4, 1848. DEAR SIR,—I comply so far with the request contained in your note of the 23d ultimo, as to acknowledge its receipt,...

ASHLAND, July 19, 1848. If I have not before written to you, my dear Miss Susan, I pray you to believe that my silence has not proceeded f...

ELIZABETHTOWN, N. J., July 19, 1848. MY DEAR MR. CLAY,—I have been most unfortunate in respect to your very kind note to me of May 30, add...

ASHLAND, August 5, 1848. MY DEAR SIR,—I received, at the Estell Springs (from which I returned yesterday), your favor transmitting a sketc...

ASHLAND, August 24, 1848. MY DEAR SIR,—I duly received, and perused with lively interest and gratitude, your friendly letter of the 27th u...

ASHLAND, September 16, 1848. MY DEAR SIR,—I received your favor of the 9th instant, informing me of the movement of some of my friends in ...

ASHLAND, September 20, 1848. GENTLEMEN, I have received your official letter as members of the (Whig) Democratic General Committee of the ...

(From Washington Union, October 12, 1847.) Brierfield, Sep. 19, 1847. C. J. Searles, Esq.— My dear sir: Your highly valued letter of th...

BATON ROUGE, La., November 17, 1848. MY DEAR SIR,—On my return here a day or two since, after a short absence, I found your highly esteeme...

Washington 4th Feb: 1848 MY DEAR SIR, . . . My speech 1 has had a very wide circulation and the impression is, that it has made a deeper ...

Washington 20th Feb: 1848 MY DEAR DAUGHTER, . . . As to politicks, things are very much as they were, when I last wrote Mr Clemson. We hav...

Washington 7th March 1848 MY DEAR SIR, The last Steamer brought a letter from Anna to me, the only one received by it. I am happy to learn...