Congressman Rutherford B. Hayes to Sardis Birchard, August 6, 1866

CINCINNATI, August 6, 1866.

DEAR UNCLE:— Our convention* went off just to my taste. There seems to be no doubt as to the result in my district. Lucy is at Chillicothe, or rather is at her Aunt Boggs'.

A good deal of cholera here and increasing. I shall go to Lucy the latter part of the week. Will not come to Fremont for ten days or a fortnight. Love to the boys [Birchard and Webb].

HAYES.

S. BIRCHARD.

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*The Republican Congressional convention, at which Hayes was renominated for Congress without opposition.

SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 3, p. 29