COLUMBUS, November 3, 1868.
DEAR UNCLE: Platt heard my
talk about the taxes for ditches and roads on your Wood County lands with the
greatest good humor. He laughed about it; said he rather thought the lands
might about as well be given up, but would leave all that to you and Doctor
Rawson. He seemed to regard the big figures I gave him as a good joke. There
will be no trouble or feeling with him.
Judge Matthews staid with us
during the session of the Electoral College. His daughter Bella, the eldest and
favorite, aged seventeen, died suddenly while he was here.
Lucy has gone down to
Glendale. We got home in five hours from Fremont by way of Monroeville and
Clyde. The quickest time I ever made. All well.
SOURCE: Charles Richard
Williams, editor, Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume
3, p. 55
No comments:
Post a Comment