A bright day, pleasantly cool — On going in to the office [I] found on my desk, the card of Wm. G Bates 48 of Massts. — He called to see me...

This has been a peculiar day as regards the weather. Sunshine and rain alternating all day with high wind and threatening Cloud occasionaly....

The Queen laid the first stone of the Mausoleum in Frogmore Gardens on Saturday. In this receptacle Prince Albert's remains and her own ...

MR. CHAIRMAN: I have been struck with one fact, that the best orators who have added their praise to his fame and I need not go out of this ...

Monmouth, Oct. 17th, 1835. To show you that I am not wasting the prime of life in ignoble ease, I may mention that I am a senator in the L...

The best news for us since the war began has come within a day or two; and it is confirmed. Beaufort, S. C., is taken by a federal fleet, an...

To-day there are rumors of a possible war with England, on account of the affair of Mason and Slidell, now prisoners in Boston harbor. It wi...

A pretty table found its way into my room Christmas morning, a gift contributed from two classes; I was half sorry and half glad to receive ...

WASHINGTON, Aug. 10, 1852. REV. THEO. PARKER. MY DEAR SIR, — I hope you did not think the two queries which I put to Mrs. Mann imposed any...

JULY 16. Miss Beecher prays, if I want any more comfort in this life, that I will not try to build up a college at the West, and says Mr. ...

JULY 27. . . . I should like to see Rev. Theodore Parker move a table without touching it, directly or indirectly. Suppose what we call el...

WASHINGTON, July 27, 1852. MY DEAR DOWNER, — What is said about the Pittsburg Convention? From what I see and hear, I apprehend the curren...

The result at which you arrived is not in the least surprising to me. You are in your nature more trusting than I, and therefore expected mo...

Today’s special rumor is of a scheme of disunion, fathered by the Hon. Howell Cobb of Georgia, Secretary of the Treasury, who is now favorin...

Lincoln elected. Hooray. Everybody seems glad of it. Even Democrats like Isaac Bell say there will be no disturbance, and that this will qui...

Wrote a long letter to S. Colfax 92 of Inda. shewing plainly my views of the slavery question and the Dred Scott decision— Sent him also co...

[Cold, rainy weather.] Barton I suppose will not go today — nor Coalter, who rides his (B[arton]'s) saddle horse, while B.[arton] drives...

Very warm summer day-Breakfasted at Dr Browns with Mrs Brown alone, he being in the Country     The letter of Hon Edw Bates to me declaring ...

"Despise not these  Squatters ." The bill to encourage agriculture, commerce, manufactures, and all other branches of industry, ...