Tuesday, June 25, 2024

Governor Rutherford B. Hayes to William Henry Smith, May 1, 1869

COLUMBUS, May 1, 1869.

DEAR S——:— I am obliged for your frank letter. It comes nearer the core of the matter than any word I have yet had. I may not act on it, but the chances are that I shall. I have a sort of pledge out to appoint the choice of the school men. If they by their letters, etc., etc., do decidedly make a choice, I shall act on it even of it takes the man you dislike. But it looks now as if I should be left free.

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

SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 3, p. 62

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