DEAR SIR:--I was unavoidably prevented yesterday, from replying to yours of 6th instant, and although I have made inquiries, I am unable _to-day_, to answer your questions satisfactorily. Although I know some of the residents of Loudon county, and have often visited there, still I have not practiced much in the Courts of that county. There are several of my acquaintances here, who have lived in that county, and _possibly_, through my assistance, your commissions might be executed. If a better way shall not suggest itself to you, and you see fit to give me the _facts_ in the case, I can better judge of my ability to help you; _but I know not the man resident there, whom I would trust with an important suit_. I think it is now some four or five weeks since, that some packages left this vicinity, said to be from fifteen to twenty in number, and as I suppose, went through your hands. It was at a time of uncommon vigilance here, and to me it was a matter of extreme wonder, _how and through whom_, such a work was accomplished. Can you tell me? It is _needful_ that I should know! Not for curiosity merely, but for the good of others. An enclosed slip contains the _marks_ of one of the packages, which you will read and then _immediately burn_. If you can give me any light that will _benefit others_, I am sure you will do so. A traveler here, _very reliable_, and who knows his business, has determined not to leave home again till spring, at least not without extraordinary temptations. I think, however, he or others, might be tempted to travel in Virginia. Yours, WM. P. LETTER FROM MISS THEODOCIA GILBERT. SKANEATELES (GLEN HAVEN) CHUY., 1851. WILLIAM STILL:--_Dear Friend and Brother_--A thousand thanks for your good, generous letter! It was so kind of you to have in mind my intense interest and anxiety in the success and fate of poor Concklin! That he desired and intended to hazard an attempt of the kind, I well understood; but what particular one, or that he had actually embarked in the enterprise, I had not been able to learn. His memory will ever be among the sacredly cherished with me. He certainly displayed more real disinterestedness, more earnest, unassuming devotedness, than those who _claim_ to be the sincerest friends of the slave can often boast. What more _Saviour_-like than the _willing_ sacrifice he has rendered! Never shall I forget that night of our extremest peril (as we supposed), when he came and so heartily proffered his services at the hazard of his liberty, of life even, in behalf of William L. Chaplin. _Such_ generosity! at _such_ a moment! The emotions it awakened no words can bespeak! They are to be sought but in the inner chambers of one's own soul! He as earnestly devised the means, as calmly counted the cost, and as unshrinkingly turned him to the task, as if it were his own freedom he would have won.