Year: 1876

| In December last, L. II. Fitzhugh,
/ doorkeeper Of the House at Washington,
wrote to a friend Of his in Texas to come
/ to the Capital and get an office. The
/ friend came on, but did not succeed.
I The fellow was incensed at his disap-
/ pointment, and sold this sample Of ex-
I Confederate literature for a little money
to assist him in paying his way back to
| Texas. The Fay alluded to in the let
ter is boy IL years old, a son Of Fitz-
hugh, who has a position as assistant
doorkeeper, by his fathers appointment,
at a salary Of 81, 100 year. The letter
is as follows. yerJatim q EtcratiBt:


d. c. Deer Is, 1873. :
Dear j w


i have been trying ever sence my cleo
tion to write to you but have been be-
seiged from eight in the morning until
one or two at night. i had about one
hundred and thirty appointments to
make and have had ! sware without ex-
ageration three thousand applications
besides men, women and children pull
ing and jerking me every time | would
put my head out OF the door OF Ny Office
! have had to keep two Cshers X two or
three clerks ever sence the hour of my
election to office, and il is now FIVE
o'clock in the morning that | have got
up to write to You. In regard to Clancy
| tried to save place for him But the
members were so clamerous for their
contituants that so far it has been impos-
sible to do so my force after Christmas
will be increased and then l will be able
to do something for him & ! will stick
him in Fay arrived Saturday morning all
safe set him work on Monday at a
$4,000 place, and he is the most de
liohfan fallouv Won avar / wigb vnu
could be here with me do try and come
on, the govt furnishes me with a fine
turn out and spnaking pair of Horses
and before and after the house sessions
and recess have exclusive use of them,
my Coachman comes down every morn
ing for us, that is Fay and myself, and
after driving around TO my breakfast
takes me up to my Office. Come on and
! will give you and Ward a good time.
Congress is invited over to the Centen-
nial on Friday we will have big time
come back on Sunday / may draw on you
for one hundred and twenty-five dollars
tomorrow which you can draw back on
me for on the lst Jan / got your tele-
gram telling me to draw for two hundred
il needed but tried to do without any
and may lot have to draw to morrow but
all of our members are like myself tight
up and | hate to ask them W come on
christmas for few days and will have a
glorious time have more invitations TO
frolick with the members and Senators
than any man in Washington. l am a
biger man now with the members than
old Grant / cant put my foot on the the
fioore of the Hall but what they make a
breake for me and some times a dozen
trying at me at once for for place for
some friend | scorcely ever get out of the
Office 20 20 on the foore of the House i
have under me the Folding rooms DOcu-
ment Rooms File Rooms all Committee
Rooms all employees in south wing of
capital, / have a Supt and Assistant in
each department and about a dozen
book keepers Decides my office clerk and
we do things up in SflC / have boy to
take my hat an coat or i cant turn
around without some ore at my beck
and call, and when ] set all of my new
attendants broken in ! shall have nice
time Give a great deal OF love to ward
and Sister Savage and the Young Ladies,
now do try and come on Christmas ! am
making up a party already TO come on to
1 Texas on the adjournment ). ;. Cox Is
to head it he IS the warmest friend Of
mine you ever saw, also the new Speak
er, Mr.. Kerr Fay and Myself spent tho
Z evening with Mr. and Mistress Kerr last
/ evening am a great fayOrite OF hers and
| Mistress Cox and Mistress Senator Cor
/ don quite a contrast here and Austin. i
/ cant turn for friends here have now fii
/ ty letters from my Southern friends all
/ parts of South congratulatIng me thus
and wags the void let man be prosper
Gus and every man is his friend must
close tell Clancy | will look out for him
and if cannot make place for him my
self can get him in some OF the Depart
ments after christmas write soon TO


your Devoted friend


l.. III, FITZHUGH.