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“I left the solicitor’s office yesterday and entered my new quarters at once.”—Rutherford B. Hayes

April 10, 2011

Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes

CINCINNATI, April 10, 1861.

DEAR UNCLE:—You spoke too late. I am again settled in a respectable practice. I tried a case today and shall try another tomorrow. Mr. Hassaurek, the German who gets the highest office, viz., nine thousand feet above the sea at Quito, leaves a good German practice. I have taken it with his half- brother, a bright, gentlemanly, popular young German [Leopold Markbreit]. It will have both advantages and drawbacks, but it was the best that offered, and not getting a letter from you, I left the solicitor’s office yesterday and entered my new quarters at once. I enclose my card for the German side of the house. I feel free and jolly.

Sincerely,

R. B. HAYES.

S. BIRCHARD.

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