Letter from William Henry Seward to Frances Miller Seward, January 11, 1831
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Letter from William Henry Seward to Frances Miller Seward, January 11, 1831
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Date:1831-01-11
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Letter from William Henry Seward to Frances Miller Seward, January 11, 1831
action: sent
sender:
William Seward
Person
Name: William Seward
Birth: 1801-05-16
Death: 1872-10-10
Person
location:
Albany NY
Place
Name: City: Albany
County:
State: NY
Country: US
Place
receiver:
Frances Seward
Person
Name: Frances Seward
Birth: 1805-09-24
Death: 1865-06-21
Person
location:
Auburn NY
Place
Name: City: Auburn
County: Cayuga
State: NY
Country: US
Place
transcription: mep
revision: ekk 2015-09-09
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18.
Albany Tuesday evening
January 11th 1831.
Weed
Name: Thurlow Weed
Birth: 1797-11-15
Death: 1882-11-22
is very much
with me and I
enjoy his warmth of feeling-a politician
skillful in design and persevering in
execution-whose exciting principle is
personal friendship or opposition and
not self interest; that is just Thurlow Weed.
How much more I like him than I
should if he was selfish and avaricious
you know me well enough to form an
opinion. He is I believe warm in his
attachments to me. He gives for charity's
sake, is generous to a fault, kind beyond
description, sincere beyond most mens
sincerity, open hearted, but he and I
differ in this that my thoughts wander
from all our commiserating homeward.
What a contrast to one of my legislative neighbors
who lives here. ^who He^ is
morbidly ambitious, he came here expecting
to make a figure in the house, he fears
to thrust himself into the arena and yet
is unhappy because he is not a victor
without having courage to enter the lists.
His conversation is always upon his own
disappointments. He has a wife
Name: Catherine Weed
Birth: 1797
Death: 1858-07-03
at A
Name: City: Albany
County:
State: NY
Country: US
and talks much about her.
Maynard
Name: William Maynard
Birth: 1786-11-11
Death: 1832-08-28
is a giant in intellect inde-
fatigably industrious, methodical, original
and persevering. He makes no protestations
18.
Albany Tuesday evening
January 11th 1831.
Weed
Person
enjoy his warmth of feeling-a politician
skillful in design and persevering in
execution-whose exciting principle is
personal friendship or opposition and
not self interest; that is just Thurlow Weed.
How much more I like him than I
should if he was selfish and avaricious
you know me well enough to form an
opinion. He is I believe warm in his
attachments to me. He gives for charity's
sake, is generous to a fault, kind beyond
description, sincere beyond most mens
sincerity, open hearted, but he and I
differ in this that my thoughts wander
from all our commiserating homeward.
What a contrast to one of my legislative neighbors
who lives here. ^who He^ is
morbidly ambitious, he came here expecting
to make a figure in the house, he fears
to thrust himself into the arena and yet
is unhappy because he is not a victor
without having courage to enter the lists.
His conversation is always upon his own
disappointments. He has a wife
Person
Place
and talks much about her.
Maynard
Person
fatigably industrious, methodical, original
and persevering. He makes no protestations
date:
Tuesday, January 11, 1831
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