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HAYES, Rutherford B. Four autograph letters signed and one printed document signed ("R. B. Hayes"), three signed as President, 1862-1889. Together 15 pp., 8vos and 4tos.
A MOVING TRIBUTE TO HIS DECEASED WIFE. 22 July 1889 to Laura R. White, on the death of his wife of 37 years, Lucy Webb Hayes: "Mrs. Hayes was a person of wonderful gifts...Her power to make others happy was fully matched by her desire to do it, by the happiness she received in doing it. She was the embodiment of the golden rule...." -- 28 October 1877: ALS AS PRESIDENT to Wayne MacVeigh on a controversy involving his Secretary of State: "Mr. Evarts has been much misrepresented in this affair but I take it the truth will gradually find its way to the public without special effort on his part..." -- 14 November 1880: ALS AS PRESIDENT to H. C. Noth. Thanks for a book: "My last months here are likely to be busy ones. But the book is in the line of my indulgences..." -- 31 January 1879: Printed document, Message to the Senate of the United States, transmitting a letter from the Secretary of the Treasury...relative to the New York Custom-house. Inscribed and signed on the title page. -- 22 July 1862: ALS to Col. E. P. Scammon. A report to his superior officer on the movement of some cannon, the training of an artillery regiment, and the discovery of a Confederate picket on the Blue Stone Road. Together 5 items. (5)
A MOVING TRIBUTE TO HIS DECEASED WIFE. 22 July 1889 to Laura R. White, on the death of his wife of 37 years, Lucy Webb Hayes: "Mrs. Hayes was a person of wonderful gifts...Her power to make others happy was fully matched by her desire to do it, by the happiness she received in doing it. She was the embodiment of the golden rule...." -- 28 October 1877: ALS AS PRESIDENT to Wayne MacVeigh on a controversy involving his Secretary of State: "Mr. Evarts has been much misrepresented in this affair but I take it the truth will gradually find its way to the public without special effort on his part..." -- 14 November 1880: ALS AS PRESIDENT to H. C. Noth. Thanks for a book: "My last months here are likely to be busy ones. But the book is in the line of my indulgences..." -- 31 January 1879: Printed document, Message to the Senate of the United States, transmitting a letter from the Secretary of the Treasury...relative to the New York Custom-house. Inscribed and signed on the title page. -- 22 July 1862: ALS to Col. E. P. Scammon. A report to his superior officer on the movement of some cannon, the training of an artillery regiment, and the discovery of a Confederate picket on the Blue Stone Road. Together 5 items. (5)