Letters of General Joseph R. Hawley to Charles Dudley Warner, The Hartford Daily Times, November 23, 1929. Not until March of the following year (1851) was there another letter. Hawley was filled with remorse because he had, in appearance, been neglecting his best friend; he gave assurance that Warner had not been out of the mind a day in two months. Again, he renewed the plea that Warner should come to Hartford and he urged the law against literature as a profession citing the difficulty of earning a living by writing. how we urged on his friend the business advantages of Connecticut as a residence as compared to New York State, while he described glowingly the attractions of Hartford and the advantages Warner would enjoy because of his ability and the apparent paucity of young men showing high promise of success. Hawley had just been chosen head of the free soil party in the state it was obviously beginning to make us influence felt on a state wide basis. While advancing, warner so earnestly against taking up writing as a career, how they could not have dreamed that within three years he himself would have a bed in his beloved Blackstone from the editorial pen and pencil. On March 9th, 1851, Hawley wrote to Warner.

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