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respondence between Rutherford Birchard
Hayes and
his college classmate and intimate
friend, Guy Morrison
Bryan. The two were members of the same
college club
at Kenyon. After graduation Mr. Bryan
returned to
Texas. Of opposite political views and
identified in
sympathy with their respective
sections, their warm per-
sonal friendship extended over many
years and their
correspondence was unbroken except
through the period
of the Civil War, when they were
serving in opposing
armies in support of their convictions.
Soon after the
close of the war the correspondence was
renewed.
When Hayes became President he invited
Colonel Bryan
to Washington where he entertained him
for three
weeks and counseled with him in regard
to southern
conditions and needs.
The civil and military record of Hayes
is well known.
His friend, Bryan, entered the
Confederate army as a
private and rose to the rank of
colonel. After the war
he served four terms in the Legislature
of Texas- one
term as speaker.
Portions of the correspondence will
appear in each
issue of the Southwestern Historical
Quarterly until
publication is complete, which, we
learn from the editor,
will be about three years hence. The
first contribution
covers twenty pages.
ARCHAEOLOGICAL WORK IN OHIO
Within the past year many complimentary
notices
have been published of the work in
archaeology con-
ducted by our Society under the
direction of Dr. William
C. Mills. The Wisconsin Magazine of
History for June
quotes approvingly and at length from a
letter of Dr.