Congressman Rutherford B. Hayes to Lucy Webb Hayes, February 28, 1866

WASHINGTON, February 28, 1866.

DEAREST:— You left me last evening, and I am already half homesick about it. Possibly I would not have thought of it so feelingly, but the sight of these gloves put me in mind of it. What a happy time we have had! Six weeks of real, genuine, old-fashioned love. Love to Grandma and the boys all.

Affectionately,

R.

MRS. HAYES.

SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 3, p. 19