NORFOLK, [VA.], May 11, 1856. DEAR HUNTER: I have just returned from a visit to my old (Hampton) county and hope things will end there as ...

Wirz, Gen. John H. Winder, commissary general of prisoners, Howell Cobb and several minor personages came inside on horseback and rode partl...

St. Louis, Feb. 24, 1859. To Messrs. J. PHILIPS PHOENIX, WILLIS BLACKSTONE, H. M. BININGER, DAVID J. LILET AND H. R. SMITH, Committee, New...

Tuesday evening. MY DEAR SIR,—Colonel King has just mentioned to me (and I am sorry he did not do so before we left the Senate) that you fel...

LEGATION OF THE UNITED STATES,           LONDON, August 9, 1855. MY DEAR SIR—I have received your note of the 15th ultimo, and have caused a...

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...

"Grant defeated, sho'," exclaimed a lieutenant who appeared on our floor this morning. We draw no rations today. Tomorrow we e...

Washington 22d May 1848 MY DEAR JAMES, I am happy to have your approval of my remarks in reference to the French Revolution. I see they ha...

At the Cabinet-meeting word was received of the death of Lieutenant-General Scott at West Point at the advanced age of eighty. He was great ...

(Confidential.) WHEELING, [VA.], 15th March, 1856. MY DEAR SIR: I arrived here on Thursday morning on my way home, but resolved to spend a...

ALTO, [VA.], March 18, 1856 . MY DEAR SIR: You would be amused to learn some of the manouvres which have been resorted to in our state to ...

ST. JAMES, LOUISIANA, December 3rd, 1855. MY DEAR SIR: Your letter only reached me in this outside world a few days since. Its confidence ...

WASHINGTON, March 16, 1861. Every day affords proof of the absence of any settled policy or harmonious concert of action in the administra...

ONLY, NEAR ONANCOCK, VA., April 16, 1853. MY DEAR HUNTER: I thank you for yours of the 11th. I did not expect you would be able to tell me...

SARATOGA, [VA.], May 8th, 1852. DEAR HUNTER: I received your very able and valuable report on “a change in the coinage,” and was highly de...

Saturday evening, February 9, 1861. MY DEAR SIR: I communicated to Governor Pickens what passed between us as to Mr. Holt's letter, an...

BROWN'S HOTEL, WASHINGTON, February 13, 1861. I have a moment to myself just before tea, and I may have time to write you in haste som...

TUESDAY, February 19, 1861. MY DEAR SIR: I do not believe a word of it. My last dispatch from Judge Robertson is wholly different. I am at...

WEDNESDAY, February 20, 1861. MY DEAR SIR: I dispatched the telegram at about five o'clock. No answer yet. Perhaps it was referred to ...

TWO O'CLOCK P. M., February 20, 1861. MY DEAR SIR: I have this moment received a telegram from Charleston. The Governor says: Received...