Have been some indisposed, with a good deal to do. Fox is about leaving, but is managing and contriving to get position and go abroad with é...

Mr. Fox, the Assistant Secretary of the Navy, informed me some days since of an offer which he had for the presidency of the new steamboat l...

Mr. Fox informed me a day or two since that he had an offer of the charge of a coal company in Pennsylvania. Thinks they will give him very ...

On Saturday evening I went with the President (whose health is suffering from excessive labor and care) and Preston King down the Potomac an...

Affairs at the South do not improve. The Secession element is becoming vicious and bad in some quarters, and I fear it may be general. At th...

The President still remains with the army. Seward yesterday left to join him. It was after I saw him, for he was then expecting the Presiden...

The date admonishes me of passing time and accumulating years. Our country is still in the great struggle for national unity and national li...

Being a little late at Cabinet, found the President, Seward, and Stanton with my letter before them in relation to Osborn. Stanton was evide...

Have intelligence this evening of the capture of Savannah. Hardee fled with his forces. The Rebellion is drawing to a close. These operati...

 Received a letter from Osborn denying that he furnished information concerning operations against Fort Fisher. At the same time Mr. Faxon t...

Mr. Faxon, Chief Clerk, is ill and leaves for New York in the Tacoma. Shall greatly miss him. No one can fill his place. Thomas G. Welles i...

On the morning of Sunday the 3rd, went with Postmaster-General Blair and family and my own family, also Mr. Fox, Mr. Faxon, Dr. Horwitz,   ...

A very busy and eventful week has passed without my having time to jot down incidents, much less observations and reflections. Among other m...

I spent yesterday with Fox, Faxon, Olcott, and a writer on the papers seized. They are bad enough, showing depravity and wickedness, but in...

Wrote Commodore Wilkes that his denial was not sufficiently explicit; that innocent parties were implicated in the publication of his lette...