ALEXANDRIA, VA.,  August  1st, 1857. MY DEAR SIR: When I wrote you some ten days ago I entertained much uneasiness from the efforts which ...

LEXINGTON, VA.,  August 1st , 1857. MY DEAR SIR: I received your letter of the 27th ulto this morning. I have been spending the past week ...

BOYDTON, VA.,  August 4th , 1857. DEAR HUNTER: In reply to your favor of 30 July I have to say, that, at the time of the election, all the...

WASHINGTON, D. C.,  August  7, 1857. DEAR SIR: I received your favor and have made inquiry as to the position of members of the Legislatur...

[PETERSBURG, VA.?],  August  15th, 1857. DEAR SIR: Doctor Harvie sent me two letters from you to Mr. L. E. Harvie, who is absent on a trip...

NORFOLK, VA.,  August 19th , 1857. DEAR SIR: The report that you sympathize with the attacks upon the Administration, made by certain jour...

LLOYDS, ESSEX CO., [VA.],  August  23, 1857. DEAR SIR: I recognize in your letter a friendly spirit and I answer you with the same feeling...

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

( 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...