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CORRESPONDENCE OF GUY M

CORRESPONDENCE OF GUY M. BRYAN AND

RUTHERFORD B. HAYES: ADDITIONAL LETTERS

 

edited by ROBERT C. COTNER and WATT P. MARCHMAN*

 

A number of years ago Ernest William Winkler, who was then

reference librarian and curator of Texas books at the University of

Texas and an associate editor of the Southwestern Historical

Quarterly, began the publication in that periodical of all available

correspondence exchanged between the Honorable Guy M. Bryan

of Texas and President Rutherford B. Hayes of Ohio, classmates at

Kenyon College and lifelong friends. The correspondence extended

from the post-Kenyon days in the 1840's until a few months pre-

ceding the death of President Hayes in January 1893. The letters

were published in installments beginning with Volume XXV,

Number 2 (October 1921), and running continuously through

Volume XXX, Number 1 (July 1926). An excellent introduction

to the two men appeared with the first of the series of letters.

Recently, about fifty-five additional Bryan-Hayes letters, un-

published, including three written during their college days, have

turned up in the Bryan Papers at the University of Texas and in

the Hayes Papers at the Hayes Memorial Library. Except for a few

whose contents are insignificant or general and substantially covered

by other published letters, all appear here for the first time.

Original letters are in the Hayes Memorial Library, Fremont, Ohio,

unless accompanied by the symbol "TxU," indicating location of

the original in the Guy M. Bryan Papers at the University of Texas.

The editors wish to take this opportunity to express their warm

appreciation to Mr. Winkler and to Miss Winnie Alien, archivist

of the University of Texas, and to Henry J. Caren, associate editor

of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Quarterly, for their

patient and unfailingly generous cooperation.

 

*Robert C. Cotner is professor of history at the University of Texas. Watt P.

Marchman is director of the Hayes Memorial Library at Fremont, Ohio.

 

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