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Governor Rutherford B. Hayes to Mr. A. T. Goodman, February 4, 1870

COLUMBUS, OHIO, February 5, 1870.

MY DEAR SIR: — I am in receipt of your favor of the 4th as to the St. Clair papers. I hope there is a fair prospect of the passage of an act authorizing their purchase, but I am not sanguine. Of course, nobody would think of the State buying them for the Cincinnati or any other local society. If bought they will be deposited in the State Library. I agree with you that your title by discovery, if they are to be given away, would give you a claim to be considered.

Sincerely,
R. B. HAYES.
A. T. GOODMAN, ESQ.,
        Cleveland, Ohio.

SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 3, p. 88

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