Meeting at my Court Street office of the committee appointed to be the faculty of the Agassiz Museum: President Walker, Dr. Jacob Bigelow, ...

Vienna,             September 22, 1863. My Dear Holmes : I am perfectly aware that I do not deserve to receive any letters or anythin...

Vienna, July 24, 1863. Dearest Mary : I wrote yesterday and said that I would write again to-day, thinking you would like to listen t...

Perhaps you expect a full account of last Saturday's “Atlantic” dinner; but really it was hardly worth it, except for Holmes, who was r...

Dr. Holmes — whom you evidently did not fancy, though you describe his talk so well — is really superior, at every point I can think of, to...

July 10, 1859 Dearest Mother: Emerson says, “To-day is a king in disguise”; and it is sometimes odd to think that these men and women...

About quarters most of the day. Read in “ Autocrat of the Breakfast Table .” Cold. Evening Dan and I went to Regt. Good time. Lost sugar. B...

Camp Maskell , December 14, 1862. Dearest :— Very glad to have a good letter from you again. Very glad indeed the bag is found — glad y...

Camp Maskell, near Gauley. — Ninth to twelfth bright, warm days; cold nights; snow scarcely melted at all on the north side of the hills. T...

Camp Maskell, Near Gauley Bridge , December 5,1862. Dear Uncle : — I am enjoying myself here, looking after the new town we are buildin...

Spent the day in camp. Thede came over and we made a little sugar candy. Read some in “ Currents and Countercurrents ,” by O. W. Holmes. Wa...

Vienna, November 2, 1862. My Dear Holmes : More and more does it become difficult for me to write to you. I am greedier than ever for y...

Vienna , September 21, 1862. Dearest Little Mary : Your last letters, 1st and 2d September, reached us with promptness, and gave us the...

Vienna , August 31, 1862. My Dear Holmes : Bare, bare, bare of news, events, objects of the slightest interest to you or any one else,...

Boston, 21 Charles Street, August 29, 1862. My Dear Motley : I don't know how I can employ the evening of my birthday better than...

Wednesday evening, September 3. I have waited long enough. We get the most confused and unsatisfactory, yet agitating, rumors. Pope see...

Boston , April 27, 1862. My Dear Motley : I saw Lowell day before yesterday, and asked him if he had written as you requested and as I ...

Boston, March 8, 1862. My Dear Motley : I have been debating with myself whether to wait for further news from Nashville, the Burnside...

I want to congratulate you specially on the dignity, spirit, decorum, and wisdom of the paper since the war began. I think it really deserv...

Legation of the United States of America, Vienna, February 26, 1862. My Dear Holmes : You are the most generous and delightful of cor...