( Private .) MARTINSBURG, VA.,  July  23, 1857. MY DEAR SIR: Though I have ceased to take interest in politics, and hang on loosely to t...

PETERSBURG, [VA.,] July 24th, 1857. MY DEAR SIR: I had a letter from Letcher this morning. He, as other of your friends, sees the insidiou...

ALEXANDRIA, [VA.],  July  24th, 1857. MY DEAR SIR: From all that I can learn the opposition in this State to your reelection next Winter a...

WASHINGTON, D. C.,  July  25, 1857. DEAR SIR: Having a few moments leisure, I have concluded to address you on the subject of the Senatori...

PHILADELPHIA, [PA.],  February  23d, 1857. ESTEEMED FRIEND: Permit me to remind you, that four years since, at your request, the Senate am...

DYKELAND, AMELIA CO., [VA.],  March 11 , 1857. DEAR HUNTER: Supposing that you will be at Washington during this week I address to you the...

NORFOLK, [VA.],  April  21, 1857. DEAR HUNTER: I have just received your letter of the 15[th] and expecting to leave town in the morning I...

BOYDTON, VA.,  July  21, 1857. DEAR HUNTER: I send herewith a letter to our friend Montague, which I must ask you to direct properly and c...

RICHMOND, [VA.], June 16th, 1856. MY DEAR HUNTER: On my way back from Cincinnati I called to see you in Washington. I had much to say to y...

CHESTERTOWN, [MD.],  October  17, 1856. MY DEAR SIR: I fear that I shall not be successful in the money affair. There is a shyness about a...

NEW YORK, [N. Y.], October 18, 1856. MY DEAR SIR: The glorious results of the elections of the 14th Inst in Pennsylvania, Indiana and even...

LAFAYETTE, INDIANA,  November  10, 1856. MY DEAR SIR: The smoke of the battle has cleared away and we are victorious. I congratulate you a...

CHARLOTTE, MECKLENBURG CO., N. C., November 11th, 1856. MY DEAR SIR: I congratulate you and all true national men on the glorious result o...

NEAR HAMPTON, [VA.],  16th  November, 1856. MY DEAR HUNTER: I have been thinking about this Southern Convention which is to meet at Savann...

( Confidential . ) RICHMOND, [VA.],  November  22d, 1856. DEAR SIR: Feeling anxious that Virginia should be properly represented in Mr. Bu...

( Confidential .) [AMELIA CO., VA.],  November  23 ,  1856. DEAR HUNTER: I was in Richmond yesterday and saw Pryor who has heard from Wash...

After an apology for a dinner, I went to [Arnold] Guyot’s lecture at the Law School. Well attended and very hot; lecture original and intere...

[WHEELING, VA.?],  May  24th, 1856. DEAR SIR: I have had a somewhat desultory correspondence with my old friend Linn Boyd. 1 He thinks it...

WASHINGTON, [D. C.], June 9th, 1856. DEAR HUNTER: I presume you have heard ere this of the action of the Cincinnati Convention and its utt...

RICHMOND, [VA.], June 11th, 1856. MY DEAR SIR: We are to have a ratification meeting in this City next Friday night; and I write to entrea...