Went with George Anthon and Walter Cutting to the opera. Heard three acts of Martha in the Cutting box. Patti and Brignoli did fairly. Hous...

Wednesday night with Ellie, Miss Leavenworth, and Cameron to Tiffany’s shop in Broadway, where I had engaged a second story window. We inspe...

Our little Prince sailed . . . Saturday, and got safely out of our hands. Inferences from the phenomena that accompanied his visit are: (1...

With William Schermerhorn to Columbia College Board meeting at two o’clock. Unusual amount of business, mostly unimportant. Treasurer’s repo...

Barton 95 has been with us two days, it being too wet to plough at home. . . . Senator Green The Weekly Mo. Rep:[ublican] of June 17 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...

At daylight a man shot and instantly killed. He had no particular stopping place, had become partially crazed; in the night had crept beyond...

This evening with Mr. Ruggles to Dr. Gilman’s, Thirteenth Street, to meet sundry of the professors of our Medical College and consider wheth...

Mr. Ruggles came in this evening and reports that the rump of the Convention has nominated Douglas. Afterwards came Walter Cutting, very kin...

The N. York Commercial advertiser of May 23d. contains a very complimentary notice of my letter to the Whig Committee, 62 and extracts the ...

NEW YORK, February 22, 1854. MY DEAR SIR,—I was delighted this morning on taking up the  Enquirer  to see that you have taken a bold stand...

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...

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...

No news of any action by the Democratic Charleston Convention. Douglas, the little giant, said to be losing ground. SOURCE: Allan Nevins a...

No Democratic nominee from Charleston, yet. Two to one on Douglas, I say. SOURCE: Allan Nevins and Milton Halset Thomas, Editors,  Diary o...

Ottawa, Illinois, August 21, 1858 Freeport, Illinois, August 27, 1858 Jonesboro, Illinois, September 15, 1858 Charleston, Illinois, Septembe...

WASHINGTON, Dec. 5, 1851. MY DEAR FRIENDS MR. AND MRS. COMBE, — Politics in this country do not, as they should, mean a science, but a con...

Col. Forney is particularly down on the New England delegations at Charleston. The following is from his “Occasional” correspondence: “Of ...

. . . one of our most staunch and reliable republicans, speaking of the tenacity with which a portion of the northern democracy adheres to S...

. . . held at New Orleans last week, to endorse the action of those who stayed in the Douglasite convention, and denounce the seceders, is d...