, having enlisted while a student at Princeton. He was the author of the famous "Newburg Letters," which created such a sensa- tion at the time. He was a voluminous author and a United States Senator. The Col. Henry Bouquet who is spoken of in this letter was an Eng- lish soldier, but born in Switzerland

well as those of her husband, now rest in the same burial place, where rests the remains of her two sons, the place being mark- ed with a head and a foot stone. A General Knox Letter.* Our President, Mr. Steinman, a few weeks ago became possessed of the following letter, written by General Henry Knox

Irish Tract Lane. To this place he often invited the members of Congress to dine and to drink. He appears to have been on very intimate terms with nearly all of them. They were calling on him and he on them almost every day. Many of them were fre- quent diners at his son Christopher's, and here he also

from the diary of the writer. They are beautiful and tender ; but as they are purely personal they may be omitted.] The writer concludes : "Dear brother, when may I expect to receive a letter? Three years have passed since last we heard from you. Our dear father expects you to write often—do not