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126 TRIAL OF JOHN W. WEBSTER.
assure you. At one o'clock, I was notified that I must appear at the
Court-room. All was arranged with great regard to my comfort, and
avoidance of publicity, and this first ceremony went off better than I
anticipated. On my return, I had a bit of turkey and rice from Parker's.
They send much more than I can eat, and I have directed the steward
to distribute the surplus to any poor ones here.
If you will send me a small cannister of tea, I can make my own.
A little pepper, I may want, some day; you can put it up, to come with
some bundle. I would send the dirty clothes, but they were taken to
dry, and have not been returned. I send a, kind note, I received to-day,
from Mr. Curtis. Professors Pierce and Horsford, called to-day. Half
a dozen Rochelle powders, I should like. Tell mamma, not to open the
little bundle I gave her the other day, but to keep it just as she received
it.-Hope you will soon be cheered, by receipt of letters from Fayal.
With many kisses to you all.- Good night, from
Your aff't father.
P. S. My tongue troubles me yet, very much, and I must have bitten
it in my distress, the other night; it is painful, and swollen, affecting
my speech, somewhat.
Had mamma better send for Nancy? I think so; or, Aunt Amelia.
Couple of colored neck hdkfs. One Madras."
Cross-examined, by Mr. Sohier.-I refer to the passage, " Tell
mamma, not to open the little bundle," &c., as the one which induced
me to retain the letter.
Eli C. Kinsley, sworn, examined by Mr. Bemis. I am postmaster
at East Cambridge.
[A letter, inclosed ,in a red envelope, of which a fac-simile is here-
after given, in connection with Mr. Gould's testimony, was here
exhibited to the witness, and he was asked, When, and where, he had
seen it, before.]
I took the letter, shown to me, out of the East Cambridge post-office,
November 30th, and brought it over to Mr. Tukey, the City Marshal,
myself, the same day. It must have been dropped in, between ten
o'clock, and twenty minutes past ten, in the morning. I brought it
over to the city, at about half-past eleven, having first put on the post-
mark.
Cross-examined, by Mr. Sohier.-I intended to mail it, in the first
instance, but afterwards concluded to bring it directly over. Its peculiar
appearance attracted my attention.
Francis Tukey, called a second time,-examined by Mr. Bemis.
[Three letters were exhibited to the witness; one, inclosed in a yellow
envelope, bearing a post-mark of " Boston, Nov. 26th;" one, in a red
envelope, bearing the post-mark, " East Cambridge, Nov. 30th," (testi-
fied of, by the last witness,) and one, bearing the post-mark, like the
last,
of " Boston, Nov. 30th;"-and he was asked, When, if ever, and from
what source, he had received, said letters?]
The first of the letters inquired of, I received through the Boston
post-office, on the day of its post-mark, Nov. 26th. The second, I
received from the hands of the East Cambridge postmaster, on Novem-
ber 30th, at about half-past twelve; and the third, I think that I took
from the Boston post-office, on the same day, the 30th.
The Attorney General here informed the Court, that the opening
evidence for the Government, was now all in, with the exception of the
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