BOYDTON, VA.,  August 4th , 1857. DEAR HUNTER: In reply to your favor of 30 July I have to say, that, at the time of the election, all the...

WASHINGTON, February 1, 1848. MY DEAR SON, — I received your letter informing me of the occurrence which has taken H. E. Erwin to New Orle...

WASHINGTON, February 15, 1848. MY DEAR SIR, — I received your letter of the 9th instant and I was gratified with the proceedings in Bourbo...

ASHLAND, April 15, 1848. MY DEAR SIR, — I received to-day your favor of the 10th instant. Prior to this you will have received my note add...

BATON ROUGE, La., April 30, 1848. MY DEAR SIR, — Your highly esteemed letter of the 4th inst. was duly received, for which you have my bes...

Fort Hill 6th May 1847 MY DEAR SIR, I am very happy to hear by yours by the Cambria, that you are all well. The views you take in refere...

Fort Hill 10th June 1847 I received your two last letters, the one written at New York and the other after your return from Washington, in...

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 ...

WASHINGTON, July 1, 1852. MY DEAR MR. COMBE, — . . . My friend Henry Barnard, Esq., who for many years was Secretary of the Board of Educa...

NEW YORK, June 9, 1848. MY DEAR SIR, — The mis-representatives of the Whig party have at length consummated the greatest act of national i...

NEW YORK, June, 1848. MY DEAR MR. CLAY, — I write to you in the fullness of my heart, not to condole with you, for though I feel all the p...

ASHLAND, June 28, 1848. GENTLEMEN, — I received your favor adverting to certain reports in circulation in respect to me, with regard to t...

We hear that Scott is nominated at last. I tell you confidentially how Seward regards it. He thinks that his friends have been defeated, tha...

ASHLAND, August 5, 1848. MY DEAR SIR,—I received, at the Estell Springs (from which I returned yesterday), your favor transmitting a sketc...

ASHLAND, August 24, 1848. MY DEAR SIR,—I duly received, and perused with lively interest and gratitude, your friendly letter of the 27th u...

Fine day—At work in office. out at Cox's to tea. “Help me Cassius or I sink” received a long letter from Hon David Davis, Tho s A Marsh...

WASHINGTON, Feb. 10, 1852. MY DEAR DOWNER, - There is nothing of much moment transpiring here. Cabell of Florida, in the House, a few days...

ASHLAND, September 20, 1848. GENTLEMEN, I have received your official letter as members of the (Whig) Democratic General Committee of the ...

Senator Doolittle brought me last evening the rough draft of a proposed call for a national Union convention which he had prepared. Some of ...

WASHINGTON, July 13, 1851. A Virginian told me yesterday that he saw I kept preaching; and, upon my evincing some curiosity to know what h...