Congressman Rutherford B. Hayes to Manning F. Force, February 23, 1867

WASHINGTON, February 23, 1867.

DEAR GENERAL:—You will be pleased to hear that the appropriation of one hundred thousand dollars to buy your father's library passed the Committee of the whole today without objection or opposition. It will no doubt pass the House in the same way, and we consider it safe in the Senate. It is in the regular Civil Appropriation Bill.

Sincerely,

R. B. HAYES.

M. F. FORCE,
        Cincinnati.

SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 3, p. 42