Congressman Rutherford B. Hayes to Lucy Webb Hayes, May 16, 1866

WASHINGTON, D. C., May 16, 1866.

MY DARLING:— I send you a paper marked about Fullerton. I am inclined to think my party friends are more than half wrong, and that Fullerton is more than half right of men who are in charge of the freedmen is not very likely to be correct in conduct. They are weak men of small experience, or corrupt men in too many instances.

We are getting on finely here now. Andy is less violent and we are more harmonious.

Affectionately,

R.

MRS. HAYES.

SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 3, p. 25