ALEXANDRIA, VA.,  August  1st, 1857. MY DEAR SIR: When I wrote you some ten days ago I entertained much uneasiness from the efforts which ...

LEXINGTON, VA.,  August 1st , 1857. MY DEAR SIR: I received your letter of the 27th ulto this morning. I have been spending the past week ...

WASHINGTON, D. C.,  August  7, 1857. DEAR SIR: I received your favor and have made inquiry as to the position of members of the Legislatur...

[PETERSBURG, VA.?],  August  15th, 1857. DEAR SIR: Doctor Harvie sent me two letters from you to Mr. L. E. Harvie, who is absent on a trip...

Dined at New York Club with Charles E. Strong and Henry Fearing. Thereafter we inspected the grand procession of the “Wide-Awakes,” a new no...

With William Schermerhorn to Columbia College Board meeting at two o’clock. Unusual amount of business, mostly unimportant. Treasurer’s repo...

Lincoln elected. Hooray. Everybody seems glad of it. Even Democrats like Isaac Bell say there will be no disturbance, and that this will qui...

( Private .) MARTINSBURG, VA.,  July  23, 1857. MY DEAR SIR: Though I have ceased to take interest in politics, and hang on loosely to t...

ALEXANDRIA, [VA.],  July  24th, 1857. MY DEAR SIR: From all that I can learn the opposition in this State to your reelection next Winter a...

WASHINGTON, D. C.,  July  25, 1857. DEAR SIR: Having a few moments leisure, I have concluded to address you on the subject of the Senatori...

HAUTEVILLE HOUSE, Dec. 2, 1859. SIR: When one thinks of the United States of America, a majestic figure rises to the mind—Washington. Now,...

NORFOLK, [VA.],  April  21, 1857. DEAR HUNTER: I have just received your letter of the 15[th] and expecting to leave town in the morning I...

RICHMOND, [VA.], June 16th, 1856. MY DEAR HUNTER: On my way back from Cincinnati I called to see you in Washington. I had much to say to y...

( Confidential .) [AMELIA CO., VA.],  November  23 ,  1856. DEAR HUNTER: I was in Richmond yesterday and saw Pryor who has heard from Wash...

His (Baldwin's) politics differed widely from Mr. Tyler's. Mr. Tyler from his youth up was a Democrat of the order of Jefferson, whi...

I have just recd, a late number of the "Constitution" (the Washington Union, with a new name 35 and a new Editor 36 — the old ha...

I HAVE listened to the striking of your city bell! Who knows but it marked the very hour and moment when the gate of Heaven was opened, and ...

Bright and pleasant weather. We are still in uncertainty as to our fate, or whether an oath of allegiance will be demanded. Efforts by J...

To-day we felt our way up the valley eight miles, but did not reach the rebels. To-night our pickets were sure they heard firing off in th...

NORFOLK, [VA.], April 13, 1856. DEAR HUNTER: Since my return home I have been so unwell that I have had no opportunity of mixing extensive...