WASHINGTON, April 6 , 1861 . To Hon. A. G. MAGRATH,   JAMES L. PETIGRU, B. F. DUNKIN, and Miss S.C. HARVEY, Charleston, S.C.: Orde...

According to promise, the inmates of Mr. Burnside's house proceeded to pay a visit to-day to the plantation of Mr. M’Call, who lives at...

Sent off my letters by an English gentleman, who was taking despatches from Mr. Bunch to Lord Lyons, as the post-office is becoming a dange...

A lovely morning grew into a hot day. After breakfast, I sat in the shade watching the vagaries of some little tortoises, or terrapins, in ...

It is as though we woke up in a barrack. No! There is the distinction, that in the passages slaves are moving up and down with cups of iced...

New York , February 1, 1864. . . . Did you observe that the “Intelligeneer” quotes a passage of my “Civil Liberty,” where I speak of th...

August 10. . . . I have the pleasure of sending you a copy of the Memoir to Mr. Secretary Stanton, of which I spoke in my letter of yes...

Have been looking at Mrs. O'Dowd as she burnished the “Meejor's arms” before Waterloo. And I have been busy, too. My husband has go...

Broad Street, November 20, 1860. My dear Sister: Poor Beasley! Who would have thought that he would earn a name in history as a seces...

Anderson will not capitulate. Yesterday's was the merriest, maddest dinner we have had yet. Men were audaciously wise and witty. ...

Charleston, 13 November, 1860. My dear Jane: You see how saving I am getting to be, as I will not waste a sheet of paper because it i...

Charleston, 10 November, 1860.   My dear Sue: * * * I am surprised that you are so indifferent about returning, as not to have fixed ...

Summerville, November 5, 1860. * * * Miss Cunningham,* through one of her assistant secretaries, writes me that Lincoln's election ...

Wednesday – I have been mobbed by my own house servants. Some of them are at the plantation, some hired out at the Camden hotel, some are a...