22 February 1877 • Hartford, Conn. (MS, correspondence card: OFH, UCCL 01533)
(SUPERSEDED)
P.S.—I suppose you got our letter about the March visit a week or two ago?
Here’s a shout for Hayes! The fact is I was afraid to shout by telegraph last Sunday, I have been fooled so often. I hope he will put Lt. Col. Richard Irwin Dodge (Author of “The Great Plains & their Inhabitants”) at the head of the Indian Department. There’s a man who knows all about Indians, & yet has some humanity in him——(knowledge of Indians, & humanity, & are seldom found in the same individual). Come!—it is high time we were fixing up this cabinet, my boy.
Look here—send postal to say you & the madam will be he here 2d or 3d of March—do, now, please. The play is done. We are plotting out another one.
Richardson 1942, no page; Davis 1950, 2.
Opened in 1916, OFH preserves President Rutherford B. Hayes’s “12,000 volume personal library along with archival material from his military and political career, particularly his presidency, 1877-1881.” Howells apparently enclosed this letter with his own of 24 February 1877, which is how it came to be among Hayes’s papers.
More information on provenance may be found in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.