Letter from William Henry Seward to Benjamin Jennings Seward, September 3, 1837
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Letter from William Henry Seward to Benjamin Jennings Seward, September 3, 1837
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Letter from William Henry Seward to Benjamin Jennings Seward, September 3, 1837
action: sent
sender:
William Seward
Person
Name: William Seward
Birth: 1801-05-16
Death: 1872-10-10
Person
location:
Auburn NY
Place
Name: City: Auburn
County: Cayuga
State: NY
Country: US
Place
receiver:
Benjamin Seward
Person
Name: Benjamin Seward
Birth: 1793-08-23
Death: 1841-02-24
Person
location:
Westfield NY
Place
Name: City: Westfield
County: Chautauqua County
State: NY
Country: US
Place
transcription: ahf
revision: dxt 2015-11-03
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Page 1
Auburn Sunday Sept. 4th.
Sunday was Sept. 3
My dear J,
I wrote you yesterday, and received last night your letter of
the 31st. Assuredly you must not receive a dollar of Lumbermans money
now. I doubt not you came to the same conclusion. In regard to
funds or fraud of that kind and drafts maturing, if you have not
already done so I think you ought to get Tucker
Name: Chauncey Tucker
Birth: 1805-10-05
Death: 1874-04-25
to go with you
to Jamestown
Name: City: Jamestown
County: Chautauqua County
State: NY
Country: US
, there take Lowry
Name: Nathaniel Lowry
Birth: 1805-10-22
Death: 1852-02-23
if you can ‑ go to the Bank at
Warren
Name: City: Warren
County: Warren County
State: PA
Country: US
and get such pay or collateral as you can. I men-
tion Tucker & Lowry because we have a claim in house
upon them, both having Assured us that these receipts should
be good and in all events provided for. I regret that this
explosion did not happen before I left, but trust you will
be able to secure against further evil, and perhaps make
safe for what has happened.
If there are fears[ , ]
Reason: threats[
,
]
Reason: and complaints it is well. It shows
that our business will be attended to, and it is unnecessary to
deal more in terror, at least at present, let the temper and
tone now be conciliating, and remember that from them who
can do nothing, nothing must be required so All will be well.
I trusted Mr Haight
Name: Fletcher Haight
Birth: 1799-11-28
Death: 1866-02-23
would before this time have advised
me of the number of outstanding contracts. Did you write or
rather read my letter to Mr Vanderkemp
Name: John Vanderkemp
Birth: 1783-04-22
Death: 1855-12-04
?
I return the bill, I Know I never received the bill in ques‑
tion. It is one of the few against which I was always on
my guard, because the impudence of of using the name of
H Baldwin a friend of mine, a lawyer at Syracuse
Name: City: Syracuse
County: Onandaga County
State: NY
Country: US
as Caution
had impressed me when I saw a caution a long time
since against the forgery. Besides I have received no bills
of that size of any body except the Lumberman's Bank.
Page 2
Nothing wrong about Henry Seymour's
Name: Henry Seymour
Birth: 1780-05-30
Death: 1837-08-26
affairs, Monomania
produced by apprehensions unfounded of loss of property.
All safe, so writes Weed.
Page 4
Benjamin J. Seward Esq.
Chataqua Land office
Westfield
N.Y.
Double
Auburn N.Y. Sep 3 4
Type: postmark
Name: Benjamin Seward
Birth: 1793-08-23
Death: 1841-02-24
September 4, 1837
Auburn Sunday Sept. 4th.
Editorial Note
My dear J,
I wrote you yesterday, and received last night your letter of
the 31st. Assuredly you must not receive a dollar of Lumbermans money
now. I doubt not you came to the same conclusion. In regard to
funds or fraud of that kind and drafts maturing, if you have not
already done so I think you ought to get Tucker
Person
to Jamestown
Place
Person
Warren
Place
tion Tucker & Lowry because we have a claim in house
upon them, both having Assured us that these receipts should
be good and in all events provided for. I regret that this
explosion did not happen before I left, but trust you will
be able to secure against further evil, and perhaps make
safe for what has happened.
If there are fears[ , ]
Supplied
Supplied
that our business will be attended to, and it is unnecessary to
deal more in terror, at least at present, let the temper and
tone now be conciliating, and remember that from them who
can do nothing, nothing must be required so All will be well.
I trusted Mr Haight
Person
me of the number of outstanding contracts. Did you write or
rather read my letter to Mr Vanderkemp
Person
I return the bill, I Know I never received the bill in ques‑
tion. It is one of the few against which I was always on
my guard, because the impudence of of using the name of
H Baldwin a friend of mine, a lawyer at Syracuse
Place
had impressed me when I saw a caution a long time
since against the forgery. Besides I have received no bills
of that size of any body except the Lumberman's Bank.
I am sure this bill was not of that parcel. Your own recollec-
tion will probably confirm this, that is you will remember
whether you sent passed the Money to Mr Kibbes
Name: William Kibbe
Birth: 1767-03-04
Death: 1841-08-04Certainty: Probable
out of that parcel,
I cannot say what effect Mr K's personal explanation might have
with me but in the absence of that, I cannot believe that this
vile counterfeit was ever received by any one of us, or paid
out to him.
Nothing yet from Baltimore
Name: City: Baltimore
County:
State: MD
Country: US
. I think I will go there the
last of this week.
There is an universal despondency in this region about money
affairs.
Weed
Name: Thurlow Weed
Birth: 1797-11-15
Death: 1882-11-22
writes that Croswell
Name: Edwin Croswell
Birth: 1797-05-29
Death: 1871-06-13Certainty: Probable
stays away voluntarily. Blair
Name: Francis Blair
Birth: 1791-04-12
Death: 1876-10-18
will be deprived of the state printing, but Polk
Name: James Polk
Birth: 1795-11-02
Death: 1849-06-15
will probably
be reelected Speaker, and that is best for us, though the dissent-
ing Jackson men will rue it. Van Buren
Name: Martin Van Buren
Birth: 1782-12-05
Death: 1862-07-24
will recommend Treas‑
ury notes, and not to pay over the surplus, but the latter will
not avail. The Sub Treasury scheme is abandoned.
The Banks cannot and will not resume specie payments
this winter. The Philadelphia
Name: City: Philadelphia
County:
State: PA
Country: US
Banks refuse to join in the
proposed convention.
You are too sensitive. I like long letters, but long habit
of being hurried by a multitude of various cares prevents
my writing such, and so it seemed to me it is as inconvenient
to others to write them as it is for me. I barely intended in
the expression to which You refer to relieve you from the labor
of writing letters which might be too exacting on your time.
Please believe me as I am, always plain of speech, meaning noth-
ing more than I say, and having no deeper motive then I express.
Disposed always to be satisfied that what you do is rightly
done and sure always that it is done with pure motives.
It is time for Church.
Adieu
Your H
Page 3tion will probably confirm this, that is you will remember
whether you sent passed the Money to Mr Kibbes
Person
I cannot say what effect Mr K's personal explanation might have
with me but in the absence of that, I cannot believe that this
vile counterfeit was ever received by any one of us, or paid
out to him.
Nothing yet from Baltimore
Place
last of this week.
There is an universal despondency in this region about money
affairs.
Weed
Person
Person
Person
will be deprived of the state printing, but Polk
Person
be reelected Speaker, and that is best for us, though the dissent-
ing Jackson men will rue it. Van Buren
Person
ury notes, and not to pay over the surplus, but the latter will
not avail. The Sub Treasury scheme is abandoned.
The Banks cannot and will not resume specie payments
this winter. The Philadelphia
Place
proposed convention.
You are too sensitive. I like long letters, but long habit
of being hurried by a multitude of various cares prevents
my writing such, and so it seemed to me it is as inconvenient
to others to write them as it is for me. I barely intended in
the expression to which You refer to relieve you from the labor
of writing letters which might be too exacting on your time.
Please believe me as I am, always plain of speech, meaning noth-
ing more than I say, and having no deeper motive then I express.
Disposed always to be satisfied that what you do is rightly
done and sure always that it is done with pure motives.
It is time for Church.
Adieu
Your H
Nothing wrong about Henry Seymour's
Person
produced by apprehensions unfounded of loss of property.
All safe, so writes Weed.
Benjamin J. Seward Esq.
Chataqua Land office
Westfield
N.Y.
Double
Auburn N.Y. Sep 3 4
Stamp
Person
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Sunday, September 3, 1837
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