. . . . In the evening Judd and Usher, and Nicolay and I were talking politics and blackguarding our friends in the Council Chamber. A grea...

I went West and passed several days in St. Louis. Saw very much of Fr é mont and his wife. He was quiet, earnest, industrious, imperious. S...

2d December, 1861. At the Astor we saw General and Mrs. Fremont. She seems bitter, I think, but he is the same old simple, winning soul...

7th October, '61. Well, and how goes the day in your heart? Mrs. Shaw had a few lines from Mrs. Fremont the other day. It is fine t...

Gen. Fremont is to be allowed by the Administration to carry out his own plans unmolested and he is going to take the field himself, which ...