Washington, 28 August 1864 . . . I have been rather expecting to make another visit to the West in September, but it is rendered somewha...

Washington, 25 August 1864 Hell is to pay.   The N. Y. politicians have got a stampede on that is about to swamp everything.   Raymond ...

I most cordially thank his Honor Mayor Wilson, and the citizens of Pittsburg generally, for their flattering reception. I am the more grate...

[Washington, 14 January 1862] . . . The President made an item of news yesterday for the country by appointing Edwin M. Stanton of Pa S...

Executive Mansion, Washington, 31 March, 1865. MY DEAR CHARLES: I have been a little neglectful of my duties to you lately. I have...

Nov. 7, 1864. I have nothing to say till the day after to-morrow. God save the Republic! SOURCES: Clara B. Hay,  Letters of John Ha...

Executive Mansion. Washington, Oct. 13, 1864. MY DEAR NICOLAY: I suppose you are happy enough over the elections to do without let...

Executive Mansion, Washington, Oct. 10, 1864. MY DEAR NICOLAY: How are your mails for this morning. We are very busy. . . . Pen...

Blair has gone into Maryland stumping. He was very much surprised when he got the President's note. He had thought the opposition to hi...

Yesterday Nicolay who has been several days in New York telegraphed to the President that Thurlow Weed had gone to Canada, and asking if he...

Am sorry to see in the New York Tribune an attempt to compliment me by doing injustice to Mr. Seward. On the question of the French tobacco...

Executive Mansion, Washington, Sept. 24, 1864. MY DEAR NICO: Your despatch was just brought in. I took it to the President, and he ...

Warsaw, Illinois , August 25, 1864. . . . . We are waiting with the greatest interest for the hatching of the big peace-snake at Chicag...

Washington, D. C. June 20, 1864. MY DEAR NICOLAY: I went blundering through the country after leaving you, missing my connections a...

Got a letter from Nicolay at Baltimore; answered by mail and telegraph. The President positively refuses to give even a confidential sugges...

For a day or two the house has been full of patriots on the way to Baltimore who wish to pay their respects, and engrave on the expectant m...

. . . . The President came loafing in as it grew late and talked about the reception which his Hodges letter had met with. He seemed rather...

I arrived at Washington this morning, finding Nicolay in bed at 7 o'clock in the morning. We talked over matters for a little while and...

Nicolay and I visited to-night the Secretaries of the Interior and of the Treasury. Usher talked about the vacancy occasioned by the death...

The President took Stoddard, Nicolay and me to Ford’s with him to see Falstaff in Henry IV. Dixon came in after a while. Hackett was most a...