Abstract:
Letters of General Joseph R. Hawley to Charles Dudley Warner, The Hartford Daily Times, November 21, 1929. Hawley was now 24. His letter revealed unusual literary quality and the sublimity of thought that stamp the idealist. His nature was robust and full-blooded. He had a rare faculty for giving in and friendships and he also felt the need of feminine companionship. With a delicacy of writing worthy of a poet he described a brief acquaintance with an farewell to a young lady who had come for a brief moment into his life and passed out again. Hawley was anxious to have a visit from Warner, and under date of August 27, 1850, he poured out his soul into a letter to his dear friend.