Camp White, April 15, Evening.
Dearest: —
Your short business letter came this afternoon. I do not yet know about your
coming here during the campaigning season. If we fortify, probably all right;
if not, I don't know.
Lieutenant Ellen is married. His wife sent me a fine big
wedding cake and two cans of fruit. Good wife, I guess, by the proofs sent me.
You speak of Jim Ware. What does he think of the prospects?
I understand Jim in a letter to Dr. Joe says Dr. Ware gives it up. Is this so?
I send you more photographs. The major's resignation was not
accepted and he is now taking hold of things with energy.
We are having further disasters, I suspect, at Charleston
and in North Carolina. But they are not vital. The small results (adverse
results, I mean,) likely to follow are further proofs of our growing strength.
What a capital speech Everett has made. He quite redeems
himself.
Always say something about the boys — their sayings and
doings.
Affectionately ever,
R.
Mrs. Hayes.
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and
Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 2, p. 405
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