NEW YORK,                     Fifth Avenue Hotel, April 1, 1888. Dear Brother: . . . This morning at breakfast I received a note from Gen. ...

1319 K ST., WASHINGTON, D.C.,           Nov. 9, 1889. Dear Brother: . . . The coming session of Congress is to be an important one, not in...

NEW YORK, Νον. 12, 1889. Dear Brother: . . . I was very glad to receive your full letter of November 9th, to hear that you are safely bac...

SENATE CHAMBER,                WASHINGTON, D.C., July 21, 1890. Dear Brother: . . . You are living the life proper for your position and ...

NEW YORK, July 22, 1890. Dear Brother: I was gratified by the general tone and spirit of your letter of yesterday, just received. You sur...

NEW YORK, Tuesday, Feb. 3, 1891. Dear Brother: I am drifting along in the old rut in good strength, attending to about four dinners a wee...

After dinner with Ellie to No. 24, where I left her, and then seeing a glow in the southern sky over the roof of the Union Place Hotel, I st...

NEW YORK, FIFTH AVENUE, June 26, 1887. Dear Brother :  I have just returned from Saratoga and Lake George, and am now arranging for Provid...

MANSFIELD, OHIO, Sept. 3, 1887. Dear Brother: Your letter of the 27th came as I was starting for the Ohio Fair. From thence I went to Lanc...

NEW YORK, Sept. 6, 1887. Dear Brother :  I am sorry you lost the trip to Alaska, but it will give you an excuse for making it at some futu...

Dear Brother: I am perfectly content to have retired when I did, as the present  régime  makes Sheridan's command of the army a farce. T...

[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...