To Trinity Church vestry meeting tonight. As I railroaded homeward at ten, there was much people in and around the Tribune office, waiting, ...

Dined with F. P. Blair Jr 25 — the first [t]ime I was ever in his house — invited specially with Judge Jno. C. Richardson 26 and C Gibson,...

The stupid absurdity of the professed Union savers, who met at Baltimore the other day to nominate a candidate for President, and another fo...

I have actually forgotten to write for months in this book. I fear me, "my heart is nae here." I have lived a good deal in the pas...

[St. Louis, October 1885.] The newspapers here now state that the Ohio election has gone fairly and conclusively to the Republicans, and p...

Rome, November 24, 1859. MY DEAR FRIEND: I see by a recent telegraph which the steamer of November 2d brought from Boston, that the Court ...

ON BOARD THE "GEN. BUELL,"           OHIO RIVER, April 1, 1864. HAVING been duly commissioned and ordered to “report immediately...

Hatchford. Came here on Saturday. Lincoln has been elected President of the United States. SOURCE: Alice Countess of Stratford, Leaves f...

The King of Prussia 1 died yesterday at Sans-Souci. The American Secession question now occupies public attention more than any other sub...

SHERWOOD FOREST, January 19, 1860. MY DEAR ROBERT: To-day the General Assembly give a complimentary dinner to Gov. Wise, and I have been i...

VILLA MARGARET, 1 July 22, 1860. MY DEAR ROBERT: . . . We begin to have more numerous calls by visitors to this region, and I become dail...

VILLA MARGARET, August 14, 1860. DEAR ROBERT: The country is undoubtedly in an alarming condition. While I think you are too bitter on Dou...

SHERWOOD FOREST, August 26, 1860. MY DEAR SIR: Your letter of August 21st was forwarded to me from the summer residence of my family, near...

SHERWOOD FOREST, August 27, 1860. DEAR ROBERT: I think it best to enclose you these letters. There are parts of mine you may not be able t...

VILLA MARGARET, Sept. 14, 1860. MY DEAR ROBERT: I see the election is gone in Maine, although Douglas confidently calculated on carrying t...

SHERWOOD FOREST, November 10, 1860. So all is over, and Lincoln elected. South Carolina will secede. What other States will do remains to ...

TYRONE, Friday Night, Jan. 4, 1861. DEAR COLONEL: Your Christmas letter came duly to hand, and I beg to make you my acknowledgements for i...

Jan. 16, 1860.  . . . The people born and bred in the North are more enthusiastic in this revolution than the natives to the soil. If yo...

ALEXANDRIA, Nov. 23, 1860. We are having a cold raw day and I avail myself of it to do a good deal of indoor work. I was out for some hour...

LANCASTER, OHIO, Sept. 20, 1860. DEAR GENERAL: I did regret and do still regret that under the circumstances you thought it your duty to yo...