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 736 Docjimoits soirees with Dryads and Hamadryads. As he is a perfect stranger at Washington (so my daughter tells me) he wants some kind of introduc- tion that will give him the liberty of making inquiries for information. Do you know Dr Jones of the Franklin Journal [at] Washington ? Pray introduce Df Manners to him and to Warren D[avis]. I suspect Man- ners will call on you. Adieu my good friend, My little Daughter just 12 plays Nina delightfully. Adieu my good friend. Yours truly Thomas Cooper. 2. Letters on the Xiillifieatioii Movement in Sonth Carolina, 18 jo— 1834. ( First iiislall?ne7it. ) The following letters, illustrating in a variety of ways the nulli- fication movement, have come into the managing editor's hands from various sources. Mr. Edward Spann Hammond of Black- ville, S. C, son of Governor and Senator James H. Hammond, has kindly placed at the editor's disposal the letters which Governors Hamilton and Hayne addressed during the crisis to his father, then a young but influential lieutenant of their party, as well as copies of his replies, and a record of a conversation with Calhoun. He has also lent a valuable collection of contemporary pamphlets, which, combined with the considerable collection possessed by the library of Brown University, has helped greatly toward an understanding of the struggle. The letters to Hammond, it may be remarked, are during 1830 and 183 i addressed to him at Columbia ; after that, to Silver Bluff or Silverton in Barnwell District. Next in importance are the letters of Hayne to another of his aides, Francis W. Pickens. For these we are indebted to Mrs. J. E. Bacon of Edgefield, daughter of Governor Pickens. The papers once possessed by Governors Hayne and Hamilton, including in the latter case his correspondence with John Randolph of Roanoke, have unhappily perished. Gen- eral Edward McCrady of Charleston, president of the South Caro- lina Historical Society, has kindly furnished a copy of a letter from a Union committee, of which his father was a member, to one of the local supporters of that party. For the letters of President Jackson and of Boiling Hall to Nathaniel Macon, possessed by a descendant of Macon, Mrs. Walter K. Martin of Richmond, we are indebted to her and to Professor William E. Dodd of Randolph- Macon College. It is not doubted that the letters will be thought to be interest- ing, and to afford a vivid notion of the character of the struggle and