WASHINGTON, January 2, 1849. MY DEAR SON,—I received your letter of the 27th November, and I was happy to hear of the continued health of ...

WASHINGTON, December 29, 1849. MY DEAR JAMES, —I received your letter, communicating an account of Susan's confinement, and I was deli...

WASHINGTON, March 25, 1850. MY DEAR SON,—I received together, to-day, your two favors of the 15th and 28th ultimo. I am obliged to you for...

LISBON, May 26, 1850. MY DEAR FATHER,—You can not imagine in what a state of uncertainty, uneasiness, and expectation, we have been during...

WASHINGTON, May 27, 1850. MY DEAR SON,—I have written to you less of late than I wished, owing to my perpetual public occupations. We are ...

NEWPORT, August 15, 1850. MY DEAR THOMAS,—I received your two last letters, the last inclosing one from Mary to Susan, which I have forwar...

WASHINGTON, March 6, 1850. MY DEAR SON,—I have been so excessively occupied that I have written less to you than I wished. Henry Clay came...

WASHINGTON, March 13, 1850. MY DEAR JAMES,—I have just received your favor of the 8th ultimo. I suppose that the bad state of things here ...

WASHINGTON, March 17, 1850. MY DEAR SON,—I was at the Department of State yesterday, and some of your last dispatches were shown me, and i...

. . . as Napoleon truly observed in his New Year’s day speech.   Prussia buried a King, the effete Sultan of Turkey sank into the grave, th...