I do not see our future on the Presidential question. The recent declaration of Toombs seems ominous of a break-up, in which I should rejoic...

I heard of your illness, while I was in New York, with great regret. Time and distance did not allow me to see you at your suburban retreat,...

I would not affect a feeling which I have not, nor have I any temptation to do it; but I should not be frank if I did not say to you that I ...

Seward read the dispatches which he proposed to send to Mr. Motley,—the first, protesting against the sending of troops to Mexico by the Aus...

Whatever may be the result of our proceedings, I am desirous that you should know my position. I have never directly or indirectly suggested...

You are right in auguring ill from the Fabian strategy. When the balloting was postponed for three days, I thought our friends had lost the ...

Our Free Soil convention was very spirited. The resolutions are pungent, and cover our original ground. On this we shall stand to the end. I...

Only a week ago, in overhauling old pamphlets, a part of my patrimony, I found the actual memorial to Congress 1 reported by the committee ...

You inquire about Eliot. 1 He is an honest and obstinate man, but essentially Hunker in grain. In other days and places he would have been ...

McCulloch, Stanton, and Dennison are absent from Washington. Seward read a letter from Bigelow at Paris, which indicates peace, though all t...

But little of importance at the Cabinet. Seward read a letter from Bigelow, Minister at Paris, representing that indications were that Maxim...

The week has been one of intense heat, and I have been both busy and indolent. Incidents have passed without daily record. The President has...

Wrote Gilpin, District Attorney at Philadelphia, in answer to his private letter as to prosecution for frauds in Philadelphia Navy Yard. T...

As the young gentleman of color, to whom I had given egregious ransom as well as an advance of wages, did not appear this morning, I was, a...

Washington , Dec r . 2, 1852. Dear Hamlin , Where are you? What are you about? The last I saw of you was that you attended a democratic...

WASHINGTON, D. C., June 27, 1854. MR. WM. STILL— Dear Sir :—I have to thank you for the prompt answer you had the kindness to give to m...

New York , December 3, 1862 Your view of the proposal of the French government that there shall be a suspension of arms for six months,...

new York , December 14, 1859. Probably Mr. Seward stays in Europe till the first flurry occasioned by the Harper's Ferry affair is ...