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Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes: Nineteenth President of the United States ed. Charles Richard Williams, The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, 5 vols. (1922-1926), Hayes to ? (November 10, 1890)Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes: Nineteenth President of the United States ed. Charles Richard Williams, The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, 5 vols. (1922-1926), Diary (April 24, 1853)Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes: Nineteenth President of the United States ed. Charles Richard Williams, The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, 5 vols. (1922-1926), Hayes to William Henry Smith (October 26, 1881)Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes: Nineteenth President of the United States ed. Charles Richard Williams, The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, 5 vols. (1922-1926), Hayes to Lucy Webb Hayes (June 17, 1866)Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes: Nineteenth President of the United States ed. Charles Richard Williams, The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, 5 vols. (1922-1926), Hayes to Lucy Webb (June 22, 1851)

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We have dancing ... from soon after sundown until a few minutes after nine o'clock.... Occasionally the boys who play the female partners in the dances exercise their ingenuity in dressing to look as girlish as possible. In the absence of lady duds they use leaves, and the leaf-clad beauties often look very pretty and always odd enough.

Rutherford Birchard Hayes

Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893), U.S. president. Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes: Nineteenth President of the United States, vol. II, p. 300, ed. Charles Richard Williams, The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, 5 vols. (1922-1926), Hayes to Sophia Birchard Hayes (July 10, 1862).

Since this description was intended to amuse his mother, Hayes obviously did not detect any homoeroticism in the costumes.

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