In these hours of rest and joyful anticipation the necessities of both large and small were administered to according to their needs, before forwarding them still further.  The time and attention required for so many left but little opportunity, however, for the Secretary to write their narratives.  He had only evening leisure for the work.  Ten or twelve of that party had to be sent off without having their stories recorded.  Daniel Robertson was one of this number; his name is simply entered on the roll, and, but for letters received from him, after he passed on North, no further knowledge would have been obtained.  In Petersburg, whence he escaped, he left his wife, for whose deliverance he felt bound to do everything that lay in his power, as the subjoined letters will attest: 

    HAVANA, August 11, 1856, Schuylkill Co., N.Y.

MR. WM. STILL—­Dear Sir:—­I came from Virginia in March, and was at your office the last of March.  My object in writing you, is to inquire what I can do, or what can be done to help my wife to escape from the same bondage that I was in.  You will know by your books that I was from Petersburg, Va., and that is where my wife now is.  I have received two or three letters from a lady in that place, and the last one says, that my wife’s mistress is dead, and that she expects to be sold.  I am very anxious to do what I can for her before it is too late, and beg of you to devise some means to get her away.  Capt. the man that brought me away, knows the colored agent at Petersburg, and knows he will do all he can to forward my wife.  The Capt. promised, that when I could raise one hundred dollars for him that he would deliver her in Philadelphia.  Tell him that I can now raise the money, and will forward it to you at any day that he thinks that he can bring her.  Please see the Captain and find when he will undertake it, and then let me know when to forward the money to you.  I am at work for the Hon. Charles Cook, and can send the money any day.  My wife’s name is Harriet Robertson, and the agent at Petersburg knows her.

    Please direct your answer, with all necessary directions, to N.
    Coryell, of this village, and he will see that all is right.

    Very respectfully,

    DANIEL ROBERTSON.

    HAVANA, Aug. 18, 1856.

MR. WM. STILL—­Dear Sir:—­Yours of the 18th, for D. Robertson, was duly received.  In behalf of Daniel, I thank you kindly for the interest you manifest in him.  The letters that have gone from him to his friends in Virginia, have been written by me, and sent in such a manner as we thought would best ensure safety.  Yet I am well aware of the risk of writing, and have restrained him as far as possible, and the last one I wrote was to be the last, till an effort was made to reclaim his wife.  Daniel is a faithful, likely man, and is well liked by all who know him.  He is industrious and prudent, and is bending his whole