Sunday, 25. — A pleasant and “merry Christmas.” A good dinner. Captain Nye, Lieutenants Turner and Stanley, Dr. Webb, Majors Carey, Twenty-third, and McKown, Thirteenth. Wine, oysters, turkey, etc., etc. Read through [General Winfield] Scott’s “Autobiography.” Weak and vain beyond compare.

Rutherford B. Hayes.
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