COLUMBUS, OHIO, January 31, 1870.
MY DEAR SIR: — Having secured portraits of almost all of the early governors, I began a few weeks ago a correspondence with a view to obtaining the portraits of those who are now living. I found there would be no trouble in getting yours. Mr. L'Hommedieu undertook it, and with your friends Jay Cooke, Carson, Yeatman, Hoadly, and Spooner, proposed to present the State as fine a one as they could get. Last Friday I received by express from Chicago a capital picture, three-fourths length — the work of W. Cogswell, — which is perfectly satisfactory to all of your friends who have seen it. It is given to the State by Jay Cooke, and is the finest of the seventeen portraits in the office.
I write this note with a double object: First, to let you know what your friends intended to do, and what one of them has done; second, to learn from you where the original picture was taken — assuming this to be a copy — and by whom.
CHIEF JUSTICE, Washington.
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 3, pp. 85-6
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