COLUMBUS, OHIO, December 4, 1869.
MY DEAR SIR: — Yours of yesterday received. I think there will be small opposition in the committee to keeping the Lincoln out of sight until the inauguration of the complete work. But we do insist upon getting it here away from your tinder-box. I expect to hear you have been burnt out by next mail, and shall continue in that agreeable state of mind until relieved by the happening of that event! It is only the special providence which watches over you and the sparrows which has saved you so long!
Sincerely,
R. B. HAYES.
T. D. JONES, Esq.
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 3, p. 75
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