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46,149 lettersPhiladelphia, March 20, 1750/1 Dear Mr. Parker, I have, as you desire, read the Manuscript you sent me; and am of Opinion, with the publick-spirited Author, that securing the Friendship…
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT NO. 2, Tupelo, Miss., July 4, 1862. COLONEL: As you have kindly consented to take the general super. intendence of the work of completing the Meridian and Selma…
Mr. F. W. Seward to Mr. Sanford. No. 148.] Department of State, Washington, September 26, 1864. Sir: I thank you for your interesting despatch of the 7th of September, No.…
Mr. Seward to Mr. Sanford. Department of State, Washington, September 17, 1864. Sir: I acknowledge the receipt of your private note of the 19th of August, which, as I perceive,…
GENERAL ORDERS, } HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE WEST, NOT Prtceville, Miss., July 3, 1862. The major-general commanding announces the following as the staff of the Army of the West: Adjutant-Generalâs…
Londn Feby 22d. 1750/1 My Dear Friend On the other Side is the Account of the Books I now send. I next must thank thee for thine of the 27:…
Mr. Seward to Mr. Sanford. No. 145.] Department of State, Washington, September 10, 1864. Sir:Our consul at Halifax has informed this department that Major Walker, late insurgent agent at Bermuda,…
Mr. Seward to Mr. Sanford. No. 143.] Department of State, Washington, August 26, 1864. Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch of August 12, No.…
Philada. Feb. 4. 1750, 1 Dear Sir I wrote you per Capt. Budden, who sail’d the Beginning of December, and sent you a Bill of Exchange on Jonathan Gurnel &…
Mr. Seward to Mr. Sanford. No. 142.] Department of State, Washington, August 25, 1864. Sir:Your despatches from No. 204, of the 21st ultimo, to No. 208, of the 29th ultimo,…
GENERAL ORDERS, HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT NO. 2, July 2, 1862. No. 87. Tupelo, Miss., July 2, 1862. The commander of the forces is pleased to have occasion to commend to the…
Mr. Seward to Mr. Sanford. No. 140.] Department of State, Washington, August 8, 1864. Sir: I submitted to the Secretary of the Navy your despatch No. 200, marked confidential, in…
Philada. Feb. 4. 1750, 1 Dear Sir I receiv’d yours of Oct. 4. via New England, 9 with the Account of what you have laid out on Books and Mathematical…
Tupelo, Miss., July 1, 1862. Brigadier-General CHALMERS, Commanding Oavalry, Booneville, Miss. : GENERAL: The general commanding directs me to acknowledge the receipt of a dispatch from your adjutant-general, and to…
Philada. Jan. 9. 1750, 1 Dear Sir I receiv’d your Favour of the 14th past, 2 with the Noetica, which I shall immediately put to press, for I think it…
Tupelo, Miss., June 30, 1862. Brigadier-General CHALMERS, Commanding Cavalry: GENERAL : In accordance with your suggestion the general command. ing has directed the Reserve Corps to move early to-morrow by…
I have lately made an Experiment in Electricity that I desire never to repeat. Two nights ago being about to kill a Turkey by the Shock from two large Glass…
Near Tupelo, Miss., June 28, 1862. MAJor: I have the honor to transmit to you (herewith inclosed) the consolidated statement * of ordnance and ordnance stores at Confederate States Arsenal…
Mr. Seward to Mr. Sanford. No. 137.] Department of State, Washington, July 29, 1864. Sir: I have your private note of the 15th of July, which, I see, is tinged…
Philadelphia, December 17. 1750 Mr. Hall, A low Piece of insipid ironical Scurrility having appeared in Mr. Bradford’s last Paper, I think it altogether unworthy of any other Notice, than…