Wednesday, February 28, 2024

Governor Rutherford B. Hayes to William Henry Smith, July 2, 1868

COLUMBUS, July 2, 1868.

MY DEAR S——: —I hope I have not got myself in a scrape with you. I did not dream that your paper would not appear Saturday P. M. Your letter spoke of "selling it by the time I had comfortably concluded, etc., etc.," and so I gave it to all the other Cincinnati papers and I now have slips this morning from the Commercial, etc. But how will it do to print in your last edition Friday? There was no understanding with other papers. Their correspondents asked for it, and they copied it. Do just what you please with it. Mahoning is a great way off.

Sincerely,
R. B. HAYES.
WILLIAM HENRY SMITH,
        EDITOR, Chronicle.

SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 3, p. 53

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