Languages, ancient and modern, improvements of, 143 Lee, Gen. G. W. C., 240 Lawyer, the fiddling, 59 Lawyer, the ablest in Va., 84 Leigh, B. W., 9, 97 Letters, old, 32, 39, 44, 48, 88, 99 Letters, of J. H. P. on 2nd term in Senate, 121 Letters, miscellaneous, 131 Letters, declines a 2nd Senatorial term, 127 Letters, from Rockbridge committee, 129 Letters, of advice to S. M. P. and J. L. P., 132, 139 Letters, on Earl of Derby, 284 Letters, Littlepage, Lewis, 35 Lewis, Charles H., 152 Lewis, Gen. S. H., 97 Lewis, Col. Wm. L., 59, 60 Lewis, James A., 145 Lewis, Major John, 42 Lewis, major Thos. Preston, 102 Lewis, John Benjamin, cadet, 51 Lewis, J. F., letter of, 237 Lewis, Mrs. Mary P., letter of, 242 Lewis, Col. John, 243 Lewis, Mrs. Mary Preston, letter of, 240 Lockridge, Alex, 50 Legislature dines, J. H. P., 97 Loyal, Mr., of Norfolk, 105 Log cabins of the West, 102 Lines to the memory of Mrs. Peyton, 268 List of Peytons in U. S. A., 275 Massie, Capt., 14, 36, 39, 45 Mosby, Charles L., 149 Minor, Prof. J. B., letter of, 234, 236 Manners, Ld. John, 73 McCue, John, 82, 130 McCue, John H., sketch of J. H. P., 23, 176 Military Schools, 25 Mayor of Staunton, J. H. P., 17, 31 Matthews, Sampson, 48 Murray, Mrs. Jas. B., 54 McDowell, Gov. Jas., 98 McDowell, Dr. James W., 154-5 Massie, Henry, 99 Meade, Bishop, 105 McElhany, Parson, 107 Mind, J. H. P. unimpaired, 17 McClintic, Wm., 41 Michie, Thomas J., on Peyton, 121, 109, 131, 119, 208, 215, 231 Mathematics, should be studied, 141 Moncure, Mrs. Wm., 133 Moncure, Judge R. C. L., 78, 208 Moore, Samuel McD., 68, 102 Madison, President James, 11 Madison, Wm. Strother, 7 Madison, Bishop, 7 Monroe, James, 11 Nicholas, Norborne, 37 Norfolk, visits, 105 Nelson, Dr. and Mrs., 107 Nominated for Senate, 83 National Whig Convention, 113 North mountain road case, 119 Oliver, M., 126 Originality, Mr. P's, 65 Old letter of J. L. P., 280 Patton, J. M., 134 Payne, Dr., 126 Porterfield, Gen. R., 9 Pleasants, John H., 96, 128 Potter, Ben, 46 Points, James, 144 Parrish, R. L., 240 Peyton, Val., Capt., killed, 28 Peyton, Valentine, 52 Peyton, Henry, 1 Peyton, List of Peytons in the Revolutionary army, 274 Peyton, Susan, M., 91, 132 Peyton, Mrs. S. M., her death, 34 Peyton, John, 1 Peyton, Jesse E., letter of, 240 Peyton, John Rowze, 2 Peyton, Rowze, letter of, 157 Peyton, John Lewis, 93, 143 Peyton, John Lewis, letter of, 150, 154 Peyton, John Lewis, letter to, 139 Peyton, John Lewis, speech, 216 Peyton, John Lewis, U.S. agent in Europe, 183 Peyton, John Lewis, letter of, 282, 284, 285 Peyton, Mrs., sketch of, 240 Peyton, Wm. Madison, 7, 126, 33, 55 Peyton, Wm. Madison, letter of, 155 Peyton, Gen., of Kentucky, anecdote, 276