Letter from Lazette Miller Worden to Augustus Henry Seward, March 12, 1848
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Letter from Lazette Miller Worden to Augustus Henry Seward, March 12,
1848
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Repository:Rare Books and Special Collections
Date:1848-03-12
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Letter from Lazette Miller Worden to Augustus Henry Seward, March 12, 1848
action: sent
sender: Lazette Worden
Birth: 1803-11-01
Death: 1875-10-03
location: Canandaigua, NY
receiver: Augustus Seward
Birth: 1826-10-01
Death: 1876-09-11
location: UnknownUnknown
transcription: anb
revision: ekk 2015-03-12
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[top Margin] I find a little space here which 'tis a pity not
to fill up. It is the
12th of March & the thermometer is low and we
are having a snow storm such as is never seen in
Mexico, but we hope for summer by & by, & with
it fruits & flowers & be there still you return.
I had a nice visit in Auburn a week or
two ago. Fanny
[left Margin]
you ever saw. she talks a great deal of her brother
Augustus.
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This was included with a letter from Frances Alvah Worden Chesebro to Augustus Henry Seward, dated March 12,
1848.
Dear Augustus Sunday afternoon
March 12th
We were all (that is Fan
Aunty) made very happy this morning by the recep-
tion of the intelligence that the treaty with Mex-
ico has ratified. We have been all day
talking of your return home, of your leaving
the army and your settling down quietly (with
or without a wife) just as you please.
Next winter we are to be edified with
verbal accounts of all you have seen &
heard since you left home and we have
all made up our minds, if you reach us in
safety, never to let anything trouble us more.
I have not heard from your dear Mother
since this good news reached us, but I can
well imagine how happy and how thank-
ful she is. And Aunt Clara
to believe you are certainly to return. Fan has
written all we have of news here. Henry is
sitting by me & desires to be very kindly remem-
bered to you & thinks you will certainly be home
by fall as he then may have occasion for
your services, that is if you are not married
as some one dreamed you were.
[top Margin]
Fan. has left me
a very small amount of paper. I will write
by myself next time, and then you will
have a long letter indeed — Your own Aunty —
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2Editorial Note
Dear Augustus Sunday afternoon
March 12th
We were all (that is Fan
Birth: 1826-12-12 Death: 1909-08-24
, Henry
Birth: 1822-02-03 Death: 1888-11-24
&
yourAunty) made very happy this morning by the recep-
tion of the intelligence that the treaty with Mex-
ico has ratified. We have been all day
talking of your return home, of your leaving
the army and your settling down quietly (with
or without a wife) just as you please.
Next winter we are to be edified with
verbal accounts of all you have seen &
heard since you left home and we have
all made up our minds, if you reach us in
safety, never to let anything trouble us more.
I have not heard from your dear Mother
since this good news reached us, but I can
well imagine how happy and how thank-
ful she is. And Aunt Clara
Birth: 1793-05-01 Death: 1862-09-05
too will fear
to believe you are certainly to return. Fan has
written all we have of news here. Henry is
sitting by me & desires to be very kindly remem-
bered to you & thinks you will certainly be home
by fall as he then may have occasion for
your services, that is if you are not married
as some one dreamed you were.
[top Margin]
Fan. has left me
a very small amount of paper. I will write
by myself next time, and then you will
have a long letter indeed — Your own Aunty —
[top Margin] I find a little space here which 'tis a pity not
to fill up. It is the
12th of March & the thermometer is low and we
are having a snow storm such as is never seen in
Mexico, but we hope for summer by & by, & with
it fruits & flowers & be there still you return.
I had a nice visit in Auburn a week or
two ago. Fanny
Birth: 1844-12-09 Death: 1866-10-29
is the dearest little creature
[left Margin]
you ever saw. she talks a great deal of her brother
Augustus.