WASHINGTON, D. C.,
January 27, 1867.
DEAR UNCLE:—Buck[land]
and I are both a little shaky on the Randall Bill. I will bear watching quite
as much as he will. I think we shall both light on your side of the question
but our state of mind is, as you used to say, "between souse and
suggerly."* I am confident, however, that the bill will not pass at this
session.
I hear the boys are
at home. I suppose they will (the two big ones) return to your house after this
week's doings and that Lucy and Rud will return here soon. I leave it all to
her.
* Undoubtedly
colloquial for "between south and southerly." Lexicographers have
failed to record these forms.
SOURCE: Charles
Richard Williams, editor, Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard
Hayes, Volume 3, p. 38
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