Thursday, May 11, 2023

Congressman Rutherford B. Hayes to Lucy Webb Hayes, August 27, 1866

CINCINNATI, Monday, August 27, 1866.

MY DARLING:— There is to be a convocation of the Union faithful at Columbus on Wednesday, the 29th, and I shall attend. If you can send the boys by the stage to Columbus Wednesday or Thursday, it will save time and expense for me to go on with them from there Friday morning. Of course you will not send them if Grandmother is not improving. . . . Friends here all well. Cholera pretty much gone.

Politics funny—very—and decidedly agreeable. We think favorable.

I may go to Philadelphia from Fremont to the Southern Convention on the third. We open up here September 8, and keep it up then until after election.

Affectionately,
R.
MRS. HAYES.

SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 3, p. 30

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