Letter from Alvah H. Worden to William Henry Seward, July 26, 1838
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Letter from Alvah H. Worden to William Henry Seward, July 26, 1838
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Letter from Alvah H. Worden to William Henry Seward, July 26, 1838
action: sent
sender:
Alvah Worden
Person
Name: Alvah Worden
Birth: 1797-03-06
Death: 1856-02-16
Person
location:
Canandaigua NY
Place
Name: City: Canandaigua
County: Ontario
State: NY
Country: US
Place
receiver:
William Seward
Person
Name: William Seward
Birth: 1801-05-16
Death: 1872-10-10
Person
location:
UnknownUnknown
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Canandaigua July 26 1838
Dear Seward
For the last month I have been completely overwhelmed
with law business and have thought of little else and surely I
have done nothing else: and as to political movements I am
wholy ignorant in regard to them: I have had some conversation
with G___s
Name: Francis Granger
Birth: 1792-12-01
Death: 1868-08-31
friends, they feel sanguine, or pretend to feel so and
profess to regret the reality which obliges them to choose between
him and you: you doubtless saw granger in Albany
Name: City: Albany
County:
State: NY
Country: US
, he
called on me the morning before he left home: nothing passed between
us: he regretted the article in the Schenectady Freeman and we
had some conversation about it, we compared notes a little about
the alleged getting up of the convention, and I gave him to un-
derstand that the action in Monroe
Name: Monroe County City:
County:
State: NY
Country: US
came all from his friends
and that I had made a personal effort to obtain its postpone-
ment: G professed that such was his own views and that he
had no agency in getting it up and acquitted you of any,
- G did not even know when the convention was held in this
County, and the resolution for postponement was here introduced
by my advice: and in perfect accordance with G views as he
said.
Sibley
Name: Mark Sibley
Birth: 1796-11-06
Death: 1852-09-08
is sick in New York
Name: City: New York
County:
State: NY
Country: US
at Ruggles
Name: Samuel Ruggles
Birth: 1800-04-11
Death: 1881-08-28
house he was taken
down a week ago today. Mrs Sibley
Name: Maria Sibley
Birth: 1802-01-29
Death: 1877-05-21
went on on Sunday Eve-
ning. We recd a letter from Ruggles today. Which is not the
most cheering, and evidently shows that Sibley is a very sick
man and that the crisis ^in his disease^ has not been passed. Ruggles says
no serious apprehensions are entertained: he has the Dysentery ac-
companied with inflammation in the bowels
I can expect no aid from Sibley in our Law business
and I want a clerk who is reliable: and who understands prac-
tice and who I can entrust with the details of business: at
one time this spring we had 80 causes in full blast, and we
have a good many very important ones. I have been thinking
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of George Humphrey
Name: George Humphreys
Birth: 1814-03-15
Death: 1885-06-09
. George must be somewhat rusty in the
practice: and if he would take hold with us until next spring
say a year I would do what was reasonable: he cannot
find a better place to perfect time in practice: and he can
have as much variety of Legal principles as well as variety
of practice as he can find any wheres: It would be a better
position for him than he can find in New York, as I doubt
if such a variety of practice could be found in any ^ones^ offices
there: What do you think of this:
You spoke to me about some law books. There
are some old law reports we have not got, are your books in
use, if not I could use some of them to advantage.
When are you going West, let me know
Yours Truly
A Worden
Name: William Seward
Birth: 1801-05-16
Death: 1872-10-10
Alvah Worden
July 26. 1838.
Canandaigua July 26 1838
Dear Seward
For the last month I have been completely overwhelmed
with law business and have thought of little else and surely I
have done nothing else: and as to political movements I am
wholy ignorant in regard to them: I have had some conversation
with G___s
Person
profess to regret the reality which obliges them to choose between
him and you: you doubtless saw granger in Albany
Place
called on me the morning before he left home: nothing passed between
us: he regretted the article in the Schenectady Freeman and we
had some conversation about it, we compared notes a little about
the alleged getting up of the convention, and I gave him to un-
derstand that the action in Monroe
Place
and that I had made a personal effort to obtain its postpone-
ment: G professed that such was his own views and that he
had no agency in getting it up and acquitted you of any,
- G did not even know when the convention was held in this
County, and the resolution for postponement was here introduced
by my advice: and in perfect accordance with G views as he
said.
Sibley
Person
Place
Person
down a week ago today. Mrs Sibley
Person
ning. We recd a letter from Ruggles today. Which is not the
most cheering, and evidently shows that Sibley is a very sick
man and that the crisis ^in his disease^ has not been passed. Ruggles says
no serious apprehensions are entertained: he has the Dysentery ac-
companied with inflammation in the bowels
I can expect no aid from Sibley in our Law business
and I want a clerk who is reliable: and who understands prac-
tice and who I can entrust with the details of business: at
one time this spring we had 80 causes in full blast, and we
have a good many very important ones. I have been thinking
of George Humphrey
Person
practice: and if he would take hold with us until next spring
say a year I would do what was reasonable: he cannot
find a better place to perfect time in practice: and he can
have as much variety of Legal principles as well as variety
of practice as he can find any wheres: It would be a better
position for him than he can find in New York, as I doubt
if such a variety of practice could be found in any ^ones^ offices
there: What do you think of this:
You spoke to me about some law books. There
are some old law reports we have not got, are your books in
use, if not I could use some of them to advantage.
When are you going West, let me know
Yours Truly
A Worden
Person
July 26. 1838.
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Thursday, July 26, 1838
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