Wednesday, February 28, 2024

Governor Rutherford B. Hayes to Manning F. Force, July 25, 1868

COLUMBUS, July 25, 1868.
DEAR GENERAL:

You make me feel "wuss and wuss" but I can't make the trip. Her beauty and "incomparable” charms of all sorts I am sure are of the lasting kind. I can't say as to how she will "keep" in other respects. There is one thing (to the shame of our society be it spoken) which makes it probable that she will stay. She has no fortune to attract the flies.

Sincerely,
R. B. HAYES.
GENERAL M. F. FORCE,
        Cincinnati.

SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 3, p. 54

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