Sunday, April 2, 2023

Congressman Rutherford B. Hayes to Lucy Webb Hayes, May 10, 1866

WASHINGTON, D. C., May 10, 1866.

DEAREST: We had good speaking in the House yesterday and the day before. The look of things is very favorable.

I sat this morning at breakfast opposite an agreeable lady-like-looking young woman with a rather unmanageable, troublesome four-year-old. I was interested in her and it set me to thinking. The result was an impression that I am really more in love with my wife than I ever was before! Object? . . . Love to the bairns all.

Affectionately ever, your
R.
MRS. HAYES.

SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 3, p. 24

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