Wednesday, October 30, 2024

Governor Rutherford B. Hayes to Manning F. Force, November 6, 1869

COLUMBUS, OHIO, November 6, 1869.

DEAR GENERAL: My wife and I both wish to say thank you for the beautiful pictures [reproductions of paintings in European galleries]. They are so fine that I want to be able to talk about them—how they are done; where are the originals; whose? etc., etc. I am told that a negative is obtained from the painting by the ordinary process, that the negative is retouched, and these pictures printed from the improved negative.

The next time I meet you I propose to hear you on your trip. So try not [to] forget it altogether.

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

SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 3, p. 68

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