COLUMBUS, OHIO, December 2, 1869. DEAR HASTINGS: — I am in receipt of— your note of the 30th ult. It is of course flattering and pleasant ...

COLUMBUS, OHIO, December 4, 1869. MY DEAR SIR: — Yours of yesterday received. I think there will be small opposition in the committee to k...

COLUMBUS, OHIO, December 6, 1869. DEAR GENERAL: — I am just in receipt of your note of the third with an article from the  Statesman  anne...

COLUMBUS, December 11, 1869. DEAR SIR: — I am today in receipt of your letter of the 8th inst., expressing the opinion that Mr. James Lero...

COLUMBUS, December 11, 1869. DEAR SIR: — I am today in receipt of your letter of the 8th inst., inclosing letters from gentlemen of your a...

The Twenty-third Ohio, Colonel Scammon, will be here to-morrow. Stanley Matthews is the lieutenant-colonel of this regiment, and my old frie...

COLUMBUS, November 23, 1869. MY DEAR SIR:—I am in receipt of your favor of the 20th as to a recommendation for an office in the revenue se...

COLUMBUS, November 23, 1869. DEAR H——:—I have been absent or busy moving these last days or I would have said a word in reply to yours of ...

COLUMBUS, November 23, 1869. DEAR GOVERNOR:—I thank you for your efforts in the Leroy matter. I have no doubt he is deliberately trying to...

Columbus, Ohio.—On the 17th we began to move from our late residence, 51 East State Street, to Judge Swayne's residence on Seventh Stree...

I now begin to collect materials and set down a few items for my annual message: I. Fifteenth Amendment - a few words of emphatic recommen...

ST. LOUIS, Feb. 23, 1886. Dear Brother: I owe you a personal explanation as to why I did not come to Washington during my last visit East...

COLUMBUS, November 4, 1869. Honorable Richard M. Corwine, of Cincinnati, Ohio, is a lawyer of large experience, whose practice in the high...

COLUMBUS, OHIO, November 8, 1869. DEAR CORWINE: You have the joke on me if I have not on you. The word to my eye is plainly judicial not p...

COLUMBUS, OHIO, November 6, 1869. DEAR GENERAL: My wife and I both wish to say thank you for the beautiful pictures [reproductions of pain...

COLUMBUS, OHIO, November 7, 1869. MY DEAR WEBB: Yesterday one of the teachers in the public schools tried an interesting experiment in the...

COLUMBUS, OHIO, November 7, 1869. DEAR COLONEL:—Thanks for your call and pencil note at Cincinnati. I was sorry not to see you. I wanted t...

COLUMBUS, OHIO, November 8, 1869. DEAR GENERAL:—I congratulate you back again [—on your election to the state Senate]. Some enemy of yours...

COLUMBUS, OHIO, November 9, 1869. DEAR SIR: I am in receipt of your favor of the 6th inst. in relation to the appointment of State Librari...

COLUMBUS, OHIO, November 10, 1869. DEAR NORDHOFF: You are not the only "wretch" (I have adopted that good word from you) who har...