1842 Letters

, MA - 2 January 1842

Miss Fuller and Emerson sat like the old philosophers in the groves, each with a swarm of disciples as a halo.

New York, NY - 7 January 1842

I will now try, in compliance with your request, to state my objections to the plan for a fiscal agency proposed by the Secretary of the Treasury.

Paris, FRA - 24 January 1842

under the pressure of the public debt, England finds it impossible to maintain her commercial and manufacturing superiority, because she cannot raise cotton, sugar &c as cheap in India as it can be raised in the United States

Sydenham, PA - 14 February 1842

I am living here- on a few acres that I like so much better than the town, that although near enough to hear its bells, when the wind sets right, I never go there when I can help it

Picolatto - 15 February 1842

W.T. Sherman letter to brother John Sherman...You doubtless saw my promotion announced...

Sydenham, PA - 15 February 1842

I am contemplating some continuation of the work, and may have occasion to speak somewhat more fully perhaps on that topic

Columbia, TN - 23 February 1842

You have truly stated the question at issue to be that we must increase the duties or curtail expenditures, and have abundantly demonstrated that the latter is not only the true policy, but that it is practicable without injury

Houston, TX - 21 March 1842

The abuse and ribald epithets which you have applied to the citizens of this country, as well as those of the Mississippi valley of the United States, are doubtless characteristic of the individual who gave them utterance.

Hills Of Santee, SC - 26 March 1842

It is not quite certain that I will be able to stay long enough in Kentucky to pay Mrs. Clay and yourself a visit

New York, NY - 30 March 1842

I have been requested by gentlemen connected with the banks of this city to write to you on the subject of a bill before the Senate calling on the safety fund banks to make further or greater payments than was provided

New York, NY - 2 April 1842

It will not, it is hoped, be asserted that the Legislature is vested, under the words "legislative powers,^^ with a general authority to take the property of any citizen or class of citizens

Boston, MA - 11 April 1842

It is always disagreeable for a man of education to be pitched into the midst of a set of barbarians.

New York, NY - 20 April 1842

out of my own family no one remains for whom I have a higher regard or feel a more sincere attachment than yourself

Boston, MA - 20 April 1842

The next number of the Democratic Magazine will contain five sonnets of mine

Amesbury, MA - 5 May 1842

H. C. Wright, as I learn from the "Liberator," is going to England to discuss.

Boston, MA - 11 May 1842

I shall be glad to see your articles against the slavery correspondent of the Post.

Lee, MA - 0 July 1842

I like thy remarks about the Liberty party and its dangers, and I thank thee for thy friendly caution. I am not much affected by the whirl of politics.

Houston, TX - 6 July 1842

The path between us has been red, and the blood of our people remains on the ground.

Boston, MA - 6 July 1842

We have been having temperance celebrations down here at a great rate, and some in which I have had a particular personal interest.

New York, NY - 2 August 1842

I send you by mail a copy of the argument in support of the right of the United States to their North-Eastern boundary as heretofore claimed by them.

London, ENG - 2 August 1842

The Whigs went out of power and Sir Robert Peel came in on two propositions the first to admit slave grown sugar in competition with British Colonial sugar, and the other a fixed duty on corn.

Andalusia, PA - 19 August 1842

In my quiet seclusion I watch with great anxiety the progress of things at Washington and as lookers on at the game sometimes see a move which may escape the busy players

Amesbury, MA - 19 August 1842

The serene, calm faith which breathes through thy letters rebukes at times my own restless and inquiring spirit.

Washington, MD - 25 August 1842

the House of Representatives as you have seen by the papers, had passed the Tariff Bill, which I had vetoed without the distribution clause.

Houston, TX - 1 September 1842

We are far from each other; we have not shaken hands. I have heard from you. The message was peace and friendship.

Houston, TX - 1 September 1842

I send to you Drs. Tower and Cottle, on their way to the Apache nation. Antonio, an Apache, is with them.

Boston, MA - 20 September 1842

I may safely reckon on earning four hundred dollars by my pen the next year, which will support me.

Richfield, OH - 17 October 1842

Whereas I, John Brown, ... received of the New England Company (through their agent, George Kellogg, Esq.), the sum of twenty- eight hundred dollars...

Richfield, OH - 17 October 1842

I have just received information of my final discharge as a bankrupt in the District Court, and I ought to be grateful that no one of my creditors has made any opposition...

Washington, TX - 18 October 1842

The path between us is open ; it has become white. We wish it to remain open, and that it shall no more be stained with blood.

New York, NY - 22 October 1842

I had the honor to receive your letter informing me that I had been elected a resident member of the New York Historical Society.

Edgewood, SC - 8 November 1842

By all the ties of friendship and relationship I entreat you to reflect cooly and solemnly upon the steps you may take in the next year.