There is a great rush here of the Tariff party. Mr. Webster has held out the idea all summer, that, if we would surrender liberty, the South...

A pleasant dinner, at the close of which we heard the news of Sumner's election. In the evening came Lowell and Gurowski and Palfrey, an...

Vienna, February 7, 1864. Dear Duchess Of Argyll : We get on very well in Vienna. We have an extremely pleasant house with a large ga...

Perhaps you expect a full account of last Saturday's “Atlantic” dinner; but really it was hardly worth it, except for Holmes, who was r...

You ask about the “Atlantic” — Fields will edit it, which is a great thing for the magazine; he having the promptness and business qualitie...

Dr. Holmes — whom you evidently did not fancy, though you describe his talk so well — is really superior, at every point I can think of, to...

Mr. Emerson is bounteous and gracious, but thin, dry, angular, in intercourse as in person. Garrison is the only solid moral reality I have...

Congress reassembled after a fortnight's vacation, or rather were to have assembled but there was not a quorum in either house. At the ...

My heart is as full as it can be. I did not know till it was lifted this morning how heavy a load we had been bearing. I think of all thos...

Cambridge, Mass ., December 27, 1864. . . . Your last letter was very welcome, and should have been sooner answered had not I been too ...

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, July 7,1864. My Dearest James , — We are having such a pleasant quiet time that I wish you were with us. The house we are in ...

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...

North Shore , 28th August, '64. Frank wrote me, or printed rather, in large and remarkable capitals, a letter the other day. I enli...

Shady Hill , 31 December, 1861. . . . Lowell has been spending the evening with us, and brought up to read to us his new Biglow Paper. ...

The Albemarle, New York , December 19,1861. . . . This is a wonderful city. It has greatly changed since you and I were here eighteen y...

Boston , April 29, 1860. It was so pleasant, my dear Lothrop, to get a letter from you. I have kept it a week or two so as to have some...

Newport , 21 July, 1861. Dearest James , —   . . . Newport is very pleasant, or perhaps I should better say, would be very pleasant wer...

Newport , 3 June, 1860. . . . Are you pleased that Mr. Everett has consented to take the nomination for the Vice Presidency? His letter...

. . . The news, my dear Charles, is from Heaven. I felt a strange and tender exaltation. I wanted to laugh and I wanted to cry, and ended b...