WASHINGTON, May 5,
1865.
DEAREST:— I am here
in Judge Johnston's pleasant quarters, established in a homelike way. Dined
with Charley Anderson at Governor Dennison's yesterday. All talk of you..
I am yet undecided
as to when I go out, etc., etc., but soon. My trip with you is
not any more probable, but keep ready a little while longer. We shall be
together very soon somewhere. If at Chillicothe, you must get an extra room for
a short time.
I am
meditating this, to quietly determine, for my
own and your knowledge, to quit public life as soon as my term in
Congress ends. That fixed, then at once either open a law office in
Cincinnati as soon as I resign, or prepare a home at
Fremont. Don't worry over it, but think of it and when we
meet we will confer. Love to the dear ones.
SOURCE: Charles
Richard Williams, editor, Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard
Hayes, Volume 2, p. 581
