A warm, bright day.
The chaplain returned today; not an agreeable or useful person. He has been
absent over two months. I wish he had not returned.
Colonel Scammon
gave me a good, long confidential talk. Like all men having some trifling
peculiarities which are not pleasant but who are sterling in all important
things, he is best liked when best known. He is a gentleman by instinct as well
as breeding and is a most warm-hearted, kindly gentleman; and yet many of the
men think him the opposite of all this. I must take more pains than I have
[taken] to give them just ideas of him.
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and
Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 2, p. 156
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