The Curtises In the United States there is a struggle substantially coincident with yours, which is now going on. With us the slave-power ...

I heard of your illness, while I was in New York, with great regret. Time and distance did not allow me to see you at your suburban retreat,...

Court Street, Boston, April 19, 1851. May you live a thousand years, always preaching the truth of Fast Day! 1 That sermon is a noble eff...

Worcester , November 5,1859 Dearest Mother: . . . Four days I spent in going to the Adirondacks for Mrs. Brown and then another in Bo...

Private. Columbus , Nov. 10. [I860] I do not know what to say in reply to your wish that I may go into Mr. Lincoln's cabinet, exc...

Columbus , July 16, 1858. My Dear Sumner , Your brief parting note came to me like a note of music, sad but pleasant, wafted from the w...

Cincinnati , May 25th [ 1855. ] Dear Sir : On my return this evening from the East, I find your note of the 18th on my table, and I sha...

Washington , Feb. 15, 1855. Dear Friend , It is impossible for me to change my ground. I went into the Peoples Movement last year heart...

Washington , Jan’y 22, 1855. My Dear Sir , I am in fault as usual about my correspondence. My only excuse is that I have more to read, ...

Washington, July 21, 1854,. My Dear Hamlin : It was good to see your handwriting again. You had been so long silent that I almost bega...

Washington , March 24, 1850. My Dear Sumner : I thank you for your letter. It is not my purpose to go at all fully into the various que...

June 24, [1847.] I am much obliged to you for yr. kind letter of the 11th ult. wh. I recd. yesty. It always gratifies me to hear of the...