BOHEMIA, NEAR CECILTON, MARYLAND,           June 19, 1850. TO GEORGE DOUGLAS, SCHUYLER LIVINGSTON, and others, a Committee to Superintend th...

BROWN'S HOTEL, February 4, 1861. MY DEAR MAMMA: I hastily write you a few lines before retiring. The box by express came safely to han...

WASHINGTON, D. C., January 21, 1866. DEAR MOTHER:— Lucy got here Thursday evening and is, in a quiet way, enjoying life here very much. We...

WASHINGTON, D. C., January 28, 1866. Dear Mother:—Lucy is still with me. She is very happy. We do not go to parties or receptions much. We...

LOUISIANA STATE SEMINARY, Alexandria, April 26,1860. DEAR GENERAL: I will send as usual for the mail to-day and I suppose you will expect ...

There was a pleasant party at our house last evening, with an attendance of about three hundred. All passed off pleasantly, and all who exp...

Vienna , March 28, 1863. My Dearest Mother : . . . As to your making yourself out so very old, I can't admit that when I see, for...

Incessant employment early and late has prevented me from making entries, and there has been little of public interest to engage me. On Mon...

Went to prayer meeting at nine. Had a nice fall at Goodrich's. Went to Minnie's and played chess. Ellie and Minnie came down. Playe...

My dear Brother, who is always seeking to make somebody happy, arranged a dinner-party at the lake for us Saturday. There was quite a numbe...

Camp near Chesterfield Station. . . . My home is in a wild pine grove and sweetest melancholy, poesy's child, keeps watch and ward ...

Drove with Mrs. Davis and all her infant family; wonderfully clever and precocious children, with unbroken wills. At one time there was a s...

This party for Johnny was the very nicest I have ever had, and I mean it to be my last. I sent word to the Carys to bring their own men. Th...

When Lawrence handed me my husband's money (six hundred dollars it was) I said: “Now I am pretty sure you do not mean to go to the Yank...

Mrs. Davis gave her “Luncheon to Ladies Only” on Saturday. Many more persons there than at any of these luncheons which we have gone to bef...

The President walked home with me from church (I was to dine with Mrs. Davis). He walked so fast I had no breath to talk; so I was a good l...

Both of us were too ill to attend Mrs. Davis's reception. It proved a very sensational one. First, a fire in the house, then a robbery ...

Snow of the deepest. Nobody can come to-day, I thought. But they did! My girls, first; then Constance Cary tripped in — the clever Conny. H...

I went to a party this evening, given in honor of the veterans, over at Mr. Hatch's, on Yankee Street. 1 There were not many present, ...