NEW YORK, FIFTH AVENUE, June 26, 1887. Dear Brother :  I have just returned from Saratoga and Lake George, and am now arranging for Provid...

MANSFIELD, OHIO, Sept. 3, 1887. Dear Brother: Your letter of the 27th came as I was starting for the Ohio Fair. From thence I went to Lanc...

NEW YORK, Sept. 6, 1887. Dear Brother :  I am sorry you lost the trip to Alaska, but it will give you an excuse for making it at some futu...

Dear Brother: I am perfectly content to have retired when I did, as the present  régime  makes Sheridan's command of the army a farce. T...

Sadie came to see me yesterday, and today it is Lise and Ernestine. We often see each other, and surely we girls are never so happy as when ...

A week of rain. Five hundred more prisoners, twenty being marines, captured as late as May 27th. Since yesterday morning the number of death...

On the above day and date commenced one of the great battles of the "War Between the States," generally known as the "Battle ...

[January 16, 1885.] . . . My re-election to the Senate for the fifth time is unprecedented in the history of Ohio, and for this I am indeb...

I have received your letter of the 16th, and somehow felt unusually gratified that you had been elected senator for the fifth time in the St...

[St. Louis, October 1885.] The newspapers here now state that the Ohio election has gone fairly and conclusively to the Republicans, and p...

ST. LOUIS, Nov. 8, 1885. Dear Brother: . . . I have been importuned from every quarter to write or say something about the "Depew...

ST. LOUIS, Feb. 23, 1886. Dear Brother: I owe you a personal explanation as to why I did not come to Washington during my last visit East...

ST. LOUIS, April 3, 1886. Dear Brother: . . . I shall go to California to be in San Francisco August 3d-5th for the Encampment of the G. A...

SENATE CHAMBER,           WASHINGTON, D.C., April 6, 1886. Dear Brother: Yours of the 3d is received. The speech of Mr. Corwin, to which ...

ST. LOUIS, April 13, 1886. Dear Brother: Your letter was duly received, and the quotation from Corwin's speech will be all I want. I ...

. . . . It is well, too, that the drift of events brings you eastward. You must be aware that the wonder has been that, having the whole cou...

[New York, New York, February 1, 1887.] . . . . I came near closing without answering the part of your letter most important. I certainly ...

Clouds and sunshine; warm. Splendid rainbow last evening. We have nothing new in the papers from any quarter. Sheridan's position is n...

Bright and cool. A violent southeast gale prevailed last evening, with rain. Of course we have no news in the papers from any quarter. Sheri...

As beautiful a spring morning as ever dawned since the sun spread its glorious light over the Garden of Eden. Cannon is heard at intervals...