"Should there be any movement of the kind I have adverted to, I wish you would talk with Evarts, Pierrepont, and others of the right-thinking men of the convention; and if you please, show them this letter. "I am very hard pressed between the exposition, the foreign sovereigns, and our own home sovereigns, of whom we have a tremendous influx, and write you '_currente calamo_,' as you see. "We are all well, and cast longing eyes every day across the Atlantic. "Ever Sincerely Yours, "JOHN A. DIX." "_Hon. Saml. J. Tilden._" WILLIAM CASSIDY TO TILDEN "_14 Augt., '67._ "HON. SAMUEL J. TILDEN. "DEAR TILDEN,--Your long absence gives anxiety to your friends here. We miss you in council and on the floor. You must come up soon; for we will have to meet the financial question, and want you. I would have written you before, but have been laid up by the heels myself for a fortnight. Indeed, I would have gone down to New York to see you if I had been able. I would have asked leave of absence, but each day you were expected to be on hand, and I am opposed to placing on record the fact that you were ever ill. A majority of the convention has been on the sick list. Take 160 middle-aged men, and you will have a pretty large show of invalids in midsummer, when all classes are accustomed to vacation. "You have lost nothing thus far. We have lost your speech on naturalization, etc. It must come in elsewhere. Write me, and tell me what I can do to aid you, and when you expect to be on board. "Yours truly, "WILLIAM CASSIDY." ANDREW JOHNSON TO TILDEN "EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, D. C., _Novr. 12, 1867_. "SIR,--It having been suggested to me by political friends in New York that you have some suggestions which you desire to make to me, in relation to the public welfare, which would be of service to the country, I would be pleased to have your views at such time as may suit your own convenience. "Very truly, "ANDREW JOHNSON." "_Hon. Samuel J. Tilden, New York._" HORATIO SEYMOUR TO TILDEN "UTICA, _Nov. 29, 1867_. "DEAR SIR,--I send you the enclosed letter because I said I would call your attention to the subject of a paper in Kansas. I hope the harmless compliment to me will not harm the writer. Such things are usually found in letters asking favors. I do not know what can be done in such cases. I know that you as well as I have to meet such calls every day of the week. I hurried up my letter, getting my name off of the list of candidates so that I might save what little property I have. If it is so ruinous to be talked of for nomination, I do not see how any one can live through a canvass after a nomination. I expect now to be let alone.