SHERWOOD FOREST, Saturday, October 27, 1860. MY DEAR COLONEL: . . . . If elected, you will enter public life at a critical period. There i...

WASHINGTON, July 10 , 1864 — 2 . 30 p.m. Lieutenant-General GRANT: Your dispatch to General Halleck referring to what I may think i...

Am urged to go to Baltimore but do not deem it advisable. Some talk with Blair respecting Chase and Seward, who, though not assimilating an...

March17th. I have heard Wirt in another great case, opposed by Clay and Harper. Wirt rises with the occasion and the opposing force. The bi...

I wish the convention would go with me in voting slavery to death. But I tell you, gentlemen, with all my heart, that if the convention is ...

Rome [ga.], 13th Nov., 1846. Dear Cobb , Your letter of the 10th inst. was received by last night's mail. I agree with you that th...

Hamilton , December 23d, 1856. DEAR SIR: — I am happy to inform you that we are both enjoying good health and hope you are the same. I ...

24 West 31st Street, Sunday, Jan. 4th, 1863. My own dear Son: I went to hear Mr. Prentiss this morning, and was deeply affected and...

SENATE CHAMBER, January 8 , 1863 . [General BUTLER :] DEAR GENERAL: Mr. Stanton assured me last evening that had he known your real ...

PHILADELPHIA, June 30 , 1863 .      (Received 11 . 05 a.m.) His Excellency ABRAHAM LINCOLN, President of the United States: SIR...

ALBANY, N. Y., May 19, 1863.   To His Excellency the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: The undersigned, officers of a public meeting...

Resolved, That the Democrats of New York point to their uniform course of action during the two years of civil war through which we have pa...

No news from the armies. Mrs. ex-President Tyler, who has already been permitted to visit her native State, New York, once or twice ...

Senate Chamber , January 28, 1861. My Dear Andrew , — I did not unite with the delegation yesterday in recommending commissioners, and ...

By telegraph we learn that Pennsylvania will probably go for LINCOLN by 60,000 majority.   New York is said to be hopelessly none for LINCO...

New Haven , Sep. 15, 1849. My Dear Sumner : I wish I could have an opportunity to commune with you, and hear of all your doings at your...

The President tells me that Meade is at last after the enemy and that Grant will attack to-morrow. Went with Mrs. Ames to Gardiner’s ga...

Little of interest in the Cabinet. Chase, who has been absent a week, was present; Stanton did not attend. No navy or army matters discusse...

(Private and Confidential.)   Washington , 4 January, 1861. Hon. J. A. Andrew , Boston, Mass. My Dear Sir , — It is beyond a doubt,...

June 15, [1848.] My Dear Sir : 1 have recd. several letters from you lately for which I feel greatly obliged to you. I can appreciate M...