WASHINGTON, D. C., December 13, 1866.
DEAR UNCLE:— I saw the pictures of the Pacific Railroad last night. I fear you may think it a poor purchase. Under a good glass some of them are very fine, and the series give a very correct notion of the country and the looks of everything, especially of the Pawnees.
I bought second-hand this morning four of Ruskin's lectures entitled "Unto This Last." They look goodish.
We are just passing a resolution to adjourn on the 20th to the 3d [of January]. If the Senate concur, as I think they will, we may perhaps take a Christmas dinner with you.
Ruddy goes to school to his mother and seems to be doing well. He learns easily and rapidly. In his taste for books he is about half-way between Birch and Webb.—Love to the boys.
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 3, p. 36
