Rome, November 24, 1859. MY DEAR FRIEND: I see by a recent telegraph which the steamer of November 2d brought from Boston, that the Court ...

DEAREST HOWE, Three times yesterday I wept like a child, — I could not help it first in parting with Longfellow, next in parting with you, a...

Dear T. P.: — You ask me to tell you what to do with regard to S——!! Lend him no money! dissuade your friends from lending him any. He is b...

I have been requested, Fellow-citizens, as Chairman of the Committee of Arrangements for this meeting, to make a statement of the reasons f...

Boston , Dec. 16th, 1853. My Dear Mann : — I cannot express to you the relief — yes ! relief as well as pleasure, which the sight of yo...

Sunday, 1853. My Dear Parker : — I have been in to hear you, but did not like what you were saying well enough to stay more than a quar...

July 5, 1853. My Dear Sumner : — You well know what a babe I am in politics, and how little versed in the tactics of party; my views th...

Boston , Jan. 16th, 1853. My Dear Sumner : — You never yet performed the friendly office of criticizing anything of mine that I did not...

Boston , Thursday, 6th Jan. 1853. My Dear Mann : — You will see that the Commonwealth has gone into new hands. I was foolish enough to ...

BOSTON, Jan. 7th, 1853. DEAREST SUMNER: — I was very sorry indeed to criticize your speech, but I could not do otherwise in loyalty to ...

South Boston , October 21st, 1852. My Dear Mann : — I am too impetuous a person ever to give a politic answer to political questions; b...

Boston , July, 1852. My Dear Sumner : — I have to thank you for many documents, valuable in themselves, but the more so as signs of you...

Boston , July 4th, 1852. Dearest Sumner : — I got your note yesterday, and read most of it to Carter; 1 afterwards I sent it to Parker...

Boston , July 2d, 1852. My Dear Sumner : — There is a scattering of our forces here, or there has been, but I think now we begin to set...

Boston , May 30th, 1852. My Dear Mann : — I was equally surprised and disappointed by hearing of your Hegira (to Washington). I was in ...

Boston , May 30th, 1852. Dear Sumner : — I have been remiss of late about writing to you, but have been hardly in a state to do more th...

Worcester , June 26,1856 I have a momentary lull, having yesterday sent off my second party to Kansas. . . . The first had forty-seven ...

Boston , May 19, 1852. Dearest Sumner : — I wrote you a very hasty note from my office to-day. Kossuth left us yesterday. At his re...