Sunday, January 29, 2023

Congressman Rutherford B. Hayes to Sophia Birchard Hayes, January 28, 1866

WASHINGTON, D. C., January 28, 1866.

Dear Mother:—Lucy is still with me. She is very happy. We do not go to parties or receptions much. Went to one. They are all alike; rather a bore generally. We sit at the same table with Vice-Admiral Farragut. A sociable, fine old gentleman — not old in manner, talk, or looks, but near seventy, I think, in fact. He has a kind and polite way and everybody likes him. We mean to go to the President's and General Grant's this week. All well at home when I heard last.

Affectionately,
R.
MRS. SOPHIA HAYES.
        Private.

SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 3, p. 15

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