Saturday, March 4, 2023

Congressman Rutherford B. Hayes to Lucy Webb Hayes, March 22, 1866

WASHINGTON, D. C., March 22, 1866.

MY DARLING:— I am happy in getting yours of the 18th this morning. Mr. Blow of St. Louis had a small fuss with Green Clay Smith. Smith found Blow kissing Mrs. Smith! Bad again. Queen Esther still pretty, talks louder than ever and too much and too fast for a public dining-hall.

A. J. [the President] is now being tried by another test—the Civil Rights Bill. If he signs it he gets into the bosom of the family again. If not, more worry.

Affectionately, ever your
R. B. HAYES.
MRS. HAYES.

SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 3, p. 20-1

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