TRANSCRIPTION OF 1839 LETTER FROM SENATOR WILLIAM C. PRESTON
TO JOSIAH WARE

Transcribed by Judy C. Ware
© Judy C. Ware March 2009

Original copy held in Rutherford B. Hayes Library

                                                                                 Washington                                                                         27^th September 1839

Dear Sir;

     I beg you to accept my best thanks for the very polite tender of your hospitality during the vacation.  I wish sincerely that I could as promptly accept them as they are generously offered, but my dear Sir, Mrs. Preston is in South Carolina and in this fact my answer is emphatic.  Indeed, I can scarcely restrain myself until the adjournment - certainly not an hour afterwards.

     It would become compensation for the loss of the pleasure of visiting you to see you here in the course of the winter.  I indulge myself in this hope and am                        

                                                                 Dear Sir                                                              Your obedient servant                                                                 William C. Preston

J W Ware

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