House of Representatives not yet organized, no Speaker elected and government at a deadlock. Members spend their time during the interval be...

Boston , July 4th, 1852. Dearest Sumner : — I got your note yesterday, and read most of it to Carter; 1 afterwards I sent it to Parker...

Worcester , February, 1859 George Curtis lectured here last week. With the most delicious elocution we have — except perhaps Wendell P...

Do you remember, on your last visit to Worcester, that I said that there was but one thing wanting to your position — that you should becom...

Brooklyn, N.Y. , November, 1852 . . . We reached Norwich at nine and took the steamer; and here, better still, appeared Henry Ward Beec...

Naushon Island , August 12,1862. My Dear Sir , — Your favor of the 7th has been sent me here, where I am established for a month or two...

Sunday evening, 25 September, 1864. . . . We had a pleasant Club dinner yesterday.   . . . Sumner has toned down greatly since it seems...

Shady Hill , October 18,1864. . . . When I got home last Wednesday night I found a telegram from Goldwin Smith to say that he had been ...

Home , 6 September, 1864. I have just read your paper on Hawthorne, and am greatly pleased with it. Your analysis of his mental and mor...

Cedarcroft, Kennett Square, Pa ., October 31,1861. I hoped to have fallen in with you when I was in New York t'other day, but my st...

Ashfield , 10 August, 1864. . . . George Curtis spent last Sunday with us, and desired me not to forget to send you his love. He was ve...

Ashfield, Mass ., 24 July, 1864. . . . This week, let us hope, we shall hear that Sherman is in Atlanta, and that he is breaking up the...

Ashfield , 14 July, 1864. Your notes are so pleasant and add to the worth of our evening mail so much that I wish you would write to me...

Summit Point , Aug. 30, 8 A. M. If we ever do have any money to help the Government with, I would rather put it in the 5-20 Bonds than ...

Shady Hill , Class Day, 24 June, 1864. . . . The Baltimore Convention 1 did its duty well, and the air has cleared a good deal since i...

Oct. 13, 1863. I am sorry to disturb George, — but Mosby is an honourable foe, and should be treated as such. S. and I had various tilt...

Shady Hill , Thursday, 10 December, 1863. . . . Last night we went to hear Beecher. He spoke admirably, and it was a great pleasure to ...

Shady Hill , 16 October, 1863. I heartily and with all my heart rejoice with you in the result of Tuesday's elections. All our conf...

Mem says she feels like sitting down, as an Irishwoman does at a wake, and howling night and day. Why did Huger let McClellan slip through...

Shady Hill Monday evening, 21 September, 1863. . . . I was glad to see Olmsted, 1 but I wish I had known him before he was just goin...