January 7.
It has been snowing steadily for several hours, and all
thought of going further is indefinitely postponed. We shall stay in our
comfortable quarters until the snow melts, and the floods abate, and the
weather again allows the roads to settle. This, very likely, will not be until
after my visit home, so I shall not see “Camp Hayes,” as my friend Major Comly
has called the post at Raleigh, until after I see some other Hayeses who are in
another direction. I suspect I shall get home in between three and four weeks.
I know no reason which will prevent my visiting you at Delaware and uncle at
Fremont for a day or two each.
Affectionately,
Your Son.
Mrs. Sophia Hayes.
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and
Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 2, p. 180
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