Congressman Rutherford B. Hayes to Lucy Webb Hayes, March 29, 1866

WASHINGTON, [March] 29, 1866.

DARLING:— . . . A. J. [the President] getting into a bad row of stumps; not in the bosom of his family any longer, I suspect.*

Yes, it is lonely and bad. I begin to think that I ought to quit a “biz" which separates me from you so much.

Love to all.

Yours,

R.

MRS. HAYES.

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*The President vetoed the Civil Rights Bill March 27.

SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 3, p. 21