The thirty letters following are all dated Washington and give a
humorous account of matters political at the National capital at that
time.
Miss Elizabeth Oakes, a well known writer, was married to Mr. Smith
when she was sixteen years of age. She was born in Cumberland, Maine,
in 1831, and was a noted novelist for upwards of twenty years. She has
published in all something like fifteen different works. She issued, in
1851, a volume, Woman and Her Needs, which became quite popular.
Mr. Smith retired to private life at the close of the war, and died on
the 29th of July, 1868, at his homestead in Patchogue, Rhode Island.
His wife survived him and was living in North Carolina several years
ago. She gave up writing ten years since.