COLUMBUS, OHIO, December 23, 1869.
MY DEAR SIR:—I received your dispatch about the Chase portrait. I think it altogether probable that Mr. Cook would like to do the graceful thing in that behalf. But the main question which I now put is, who shall bell the cat? Who shall name the matter to Mr. Cook? In scriptural phrase may I not say: "Thou art the man"?
Sincerely,
R. B. HAYES.
S. C. [sic] L'HOMMEDIEU, Cincinnati, Ohio.
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 3, p. 79
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