Friday, October 6, 2023

Congressman Rutherford B. Hayes to Sardis Birchard, June 20, 1867

CINCINNATTI, June 20, 1867.

DEAR UNCLE:—I shall probably go to Columbus about the middle of next week and get around to Fremont from there Friday or Saturday, and will leave with Buckland for Washington Sunday night or Monday morning. I want to suggest the propriety of taking Birch and Webb with me to Washington. I shall stay but a short time. The expense will be a hundred dollars or so, but as this is probably my last of public life, I would particularly like to take the boys. Do not speak of it to them unless you approve.

I do not regret the new step [candidacy for governor]. It gets me out of worries that I shall be glad to be rid of. All agreeable here. Love to the boys.

Sincerely,
R. B. HAYES.
S. BIRCHARD.

SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 3, p. 45

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