WASHINGTON. DEAR CRITTENDEN,—If Messrs. Crittenden and Burnley, or either of them, want exercise, let them visit the sick. Here I am ensco...

WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 17, 1852. MY DEAR SIR,—It is the wish of the committee that the birthnight celebration come off at Willard's H...

Washington, March 9, 1851. MY DEAR SIR,—I thank you for your brother's letter, which I should like to keep in the Department. I thank ...

BOSTON, Jan. 7th, 1853. DEAREST SUMNER: — I was very sorry indeed to criticize your speech, but I could not do otherwise in loyalty to ...

Boston , May 30th, 1852. Dear Sumner : — I have been remiss of late about writing to you, but have been hardly in a state to do more th...

Boston , May 19, 1852. Dearest Sumner : — I wrote you a very hasty note from my office to-day. Kossuth left us yesterday. At his re...

Boston , May 11, 1852. My Dear Sumner : — I have been somewhat taken up with Kossuth's matters, though I work indirectly and not pu...

Boston , Tuesday, 25th April, 1852. My Dear Sumner : — I am only waiting to see Kossuth and to ascertain whether I can do anything for ...

Boston , April 9th, 1852. My Dear Mann : — I am indeed grateful for the kind expressions contained in your note of the 7th. (How it got...

Boston , April 8th, 1852. Dearest Sumner : — I am very grateful for your frequent though brief notes. I know how much your present posi...

Boston , Thursday, March 15, 1852. Dearest Sumner : — I write you from my house, to which I have been confined by a more than commonly ...

Boston , Thursday, Feb. 12th, 1852. My Dear Sumner : — I have yours of the 7th, and thank you for it. Don't think too much of m...

South Boston , Dec. 28, 1851. My dear Sumner : — I received to-day the revised copy of your speech, and thank you for it. It is a beaut...

Boston , Dec. 26, 1851. Dear Sumner : — . . . I told you I should give you my views touching that part of your beautiful speech from wh...

Boston , Dec. 12, 1851. My Dear Sumner : — But for an aching head and a sad heart (my spirits always sink to zero when my body is out o...

Boston , Dec. 5, 1851. Dearest Sumner : — I had a hasty note from you just as I was closing my last. In neither of your notes do you me...