I know, my dear Virginia, that you will feel angry with me for not writing sooner, when I tell you that the mail by which your last letter came, also brought one which gives me the dawn of hope, of being able to keep my appointment with You for the 2d of June.—Yes, my beloved friend! I shall...

Having written to Ellen not longer back than the 26th, I should have deferred writing to you a few days longer, if business did not call me this afternoon down the bayou; from whence I do not expect to return until saturday.—The papers by yesterday’s mail arrived in such a soaked and mutilated...

You will have known what to attribute my delay to, in answering your last letter. I have put off doing so, from mail to mail, in hopes that by the next I should have it in my power to inform you of the happy realisation of my expectations.—If, as they say, bad news always travels fast, I may...

I have been so poorly both in body and mind until within a couple of days back, as not to have had energy to obey the inclination of to answer your last letter, which was brought me the same day mine went to the office.—I will not try to conceal it from you, Virginia; I am not happy; nor could I...

Though I am labouring under a tolerably bad head ache, the effect of having got so much interested last night, in Stewart’s Philosophy of the human Mind, which I have bega begun to study, as to sit up two or three hours after my usual bed time (11 o’clock); I will not let a mail pass without...

The desire of inducing her to “give up her family” is one of the last things I deserved to be suspected of by Virginia, for I knew her well enough to be certain that she would not accede to such a proposal, and she ought to have known me well enough to be convinced that I could not make such a...

Will Virginia Randolph favor me with a few moments’ private conversation this evening, or as soon as an opportunity offers, if she finds that impossible.

I reciev’d your letters yesterday My Dear Virginia while writhing under one of those infernal pains, & with the horrors of being oblig’d to sleep that night in a room full of girls, for Mrs Carr & her daughters were expected last evening on their arrival from Baltimore; she is to spend...

The steam Boat goes at 6 oclock tomorrow morning very punctually. I have sent to Varina allready to give notice that we were coming. Phil will attend you with the carriage very early. To arrive in time you must be up by 4. oclock. We will set out for Varina from the steam Boat, on board of which...

As Lilburne sets out tomorrow, I have laid aside Caleb Williams which I count among the most interesting novels I ever read, to write to you, to tell you we have arriv’d safe & sound & in health, without any accident on the road or any great fatigue from the journey, which is almost every...