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...

Congress sat yesterday with open doors, devoting their entire session to suitable tributes to the virtues and services of their late fellow-...

Bright and cool. Gen. Weitzel and his corps having been ordered away, Major Gen. Ord has succeeded to the command at Richmond, and his cor...

NORFOLK, [VA.], May 11, 1856. DEAR HUNTER: I have just returned from a visit to my old (Hampton) county and hope things will end there as ...

HAMPTON, VA., May 15th, 1856. MY DEAR SIR: According to promises I proceed to give you an acc[oun]t of the proceedings of the District Con...

Bright and windy. The following telegram was received this morning from Gen. R. E. Lee: "Gen. Johnston reports that on the 16th Gen. Ha...

Sunny and pleasant, but hazy in the south. Cannon heard, quite briskly, south of the city. The papers report that Gen. Hardee repulsed She...

BOSTON, [MASS.], April 1st, 1856. DEAR SIR: I send you a copy of the French Tariff whose promulgation has reached here in the last mail. I...

NORFOLK, [VA.], April 13, 1856. DEAR HUNTER: Since my return home I have been so unwell that I have had no opportunity of mixing extensive...