Letters [microform] 1875-1894.

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Letters [microform] 1875-1894.

Letters from Rutherford B. Hayes to William Dean Howells, dating from 1875 to 1889. Includes a few letters from Hayes to other individuals: H. E. Scudder, Judge French, A. D. Shepard, Mrs. Elaine Howells, Gen. J. E. Wilson. The last letter is from R. P. Hayes, Fremont Savings Bank to E. Walker, dated 1894. Many of the letters to Howells were marked private or confidential and reflect the friendship between Howells and Hayes.

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Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920

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Carolyn Wells published under the pseudonym Rowland Wright. From the description of Autograph postcard signed from W.D. Howells to Carolyn Wells, Rahway [manuscript], 19th or 20th century. (Folger Shakespeare Library). WorldCat record id: 694525270 Author, editor, critic. From the description of Letters chiefly to Alexander? Black [manuscript] 1888-1919. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647943111 William Dean Howells was an American novelist...

Hayes, Rutherford Birchard, 1822-1893

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Rutherford B. Hayes was born in Delaware, Ohio, in 1822 and earned degrees from Kenyon College and Harvard Law School before starting a career as a lawyer in Cincinnati. Hayes served as a major general in the Ohio Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War and was elected to the U.S. Congress in 1864. Hayes then was elected Governor of Ohio and later served one term as President of the United States (1877-1881) before retiring to his home in Fremont, Ohio, where he died in 1893.President of the Uni...