EDWIN M. STANTON.

JEFFERSON, OHIO, _Nov. 12, 1869_.

MY DEAR MRS. GRIFFING:--On my return from Washington I found your
kind letter of the 28th, ult. I regret much that I did not meet
with you at Washington. I know your merits. I know that no person
in America has done so much for the cause of humanity for the
last four years as you have. Your disinterested labors have saved
hundreds of poor human beings not only the greatest destitution
and misery, but from actual starvation and death. I also know
that in doing this you have not only devoted your whole time, but
all the property you have. And I know, too, that your labors are
just as necessary now as they ever have been. Others know all
this as well as I do. Secretary Stanton can vouch for it all, and
I can not doubt that Congress will not only pay you for what you
have done, but give you a position where this necessary work may
be done by you effectually. This is the very thing that ought to
be done at once. Since the Bureau has been abolished it will be
impossible to get along with the great influx of imbecility and
destitution which gathers and centers in Washington every
winter, without some one being appointed to see to it, and
certainly everybody knows that there is no one so competent for
this work as yourself. To this end I will do whatever I can, but
you know that I am now out of place, and have no influence at
Court, but whatever I can do to effect so desirable an object
will be done.

Truly yours, B. F. WADE.

SENATE CHAMBER, _April 2_.

DEAR MADAM:--I have your note of the 31st, and am very sorry to
hear that there is so much distress in the city. I shall endeavor
to bring the charter up as soon as I have an opportunity; but
while this trial is pending,[30] it is improbable that any
legislative business will be done. I am as anxious as you are to
secure its adoption.

Yours truly, CHARLES SUMNER.

MRS. J. S. GRIFFING, Washington.

BOSTON, _27th July, 1869_.

DEAR MADAM:--The statement or memorial which you placed in my
hands was never printed. It is, probab