WASHINGTON, D. C.,
March 30, 1866.
MY DARLING:— I send
you the sermon on Senator Foot's death.* Grandma Webb and Mrs. Davis will read
it with great satisfaction, I am sure. You remember the Senator. He was the
handsome man you heard me speak of. The most senatorial looking of anybody and
a genuine good man. His deathbed commission, or rather confession of faith, and
triumphant end. is really a very beautiful death. The Senators and Cabinet
Ministers and all were much affected by the story.
Affectionately,
R.
MRS. HAYES. _______________
* Solomon Foot, of
Vermont. He died March 28, and was succeeded by George F. Edmunds.
SOURCE: Charles
Richard Williams, editor, Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard
Hayes, Volume 3, p. 21
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