[January 16, 1885.] . . . My re-election to the Senate for the fifth time is unprecedented in the history of Ohio, and for this I am indeb...

I have received your letter of the 16th, and somehow felt unusually gratified that you had been elected senator for the fifth time in the St...

[St. Louis, October 1885.] The newspapers here now state that the Ohio election has gone fairly and conclusively to the Republicans, and p...

ST. LOUIS, Nov. 8, 1885. Dear Brother: . . . I have been importuned from every quarter to write or say something about the "Depew...

ST. LOUIS, Feb. 23, 1886. Dear Brother: I owe you a personal explanation as to why I did not come to Washington during my last visit East...

ST. LOUIS, April 3, 1886. Dear Brother: . . . I shall go to California to be in San Francisco August 3d-5th for the Encampment of the G. A...

SENATE CHAMBER,           WASHINGTON, D.C., April 6, 1886. Dear Brother: Yours of the 3d is received. The speech of Mr. Corwin, to which ...

ST. LOUIS, April 13, 1886. Dear Brother: Your letter was duly received, and the quotation from Corwin's speech will be all I want. I ...

. . . . It is well, too, that the drift of events brings you eastward. You must be aware that the wonder has been that, having the whole cou...

[New York, New York, February 1, 1887.] . . . . I came near closing without answering the part of your letter most important. I certainly ...

The Colonel left for Ohio to-day, to be gone two weeks. I came from the quarters of Brigadier-General Schleich a few minutes ago. He is a ...

ST. LOUIS, Mo., Dec. 4, 1884. Dear Brother: . . . We have several posts of the Grand Army here, one of which, Frank Blair Post No 1, invit...

ST. LOUIS, Dec. 7, 1884. HON. JOHN SHERMAN,           Washington, D.C . Dear Brother: In my letter a few days since, I referred to a lette...

UNITED STATES SENATE,           WASHINGTON, D.C., Dec. 10, 1884. Dear Brother: . . . I can see how naturally you spoke of Jeff Davis as yo...

WASHINGTON, D.C., Feb. 28, 1882. HON. JOHN SHERMAN,           United States Senate. When a senator or member of Congress discovers in some n...

WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH CO.,      Dated, Los ANGELES, CAL., April 15, 1882. TO HON. JOHN SHERMAN,           United States Senate, Washington...

HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE UNITED STATES,           WASHINGTON, D.C., June 7, 1883. Dear Brother: . . . I expect all alteration to be compl...

UNITED STATES SENATE,           WASHINGTON, D.C., Jan. 29, 1884. Dear Brother: . . . You are probably right in your treatment of the Pres...

ST. LOUIS, Feb. 24, 1884. Dear Brother: I think I have owed you a letter some time. I have nothing new. Days, weeks, and months glide by,...

UNITED STATES SENATE,           WASHINGTON, D.C., March 7, 1884. Dear Brother: . . . I have made up my mind to be silent and neutral, and...