Letter from William Henry Seward to Frances Miller Seward, March 22, 1849

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Letter from William Henry Seward to Frances Miller Seward, March 22, 1849
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Distributor:Seward Family Digital Archive

Institution:University of Rochester

Repository:Rare Books and Special Collections

Date:1849-03-22

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Letter from William Henry Seward to Frances Miller Seward, March 22, 1849

action: sent

sender: William Seward
Birth: 1801-05-16  Death: 1872-10-10

location: Washington D.C., US

receiver: Frances Seward
Birth: 1805-09-24  Death: 1865-06-21

location: Auburn, NY

transcription: keh 

revision: obm 2016-05-16

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Washington March 22, 1849.
11PM.
My Dearest Frances,
Neither the Telegraph nor the mail
brought me any message from you. And from your silence
I infer that our dear little girl
Birth: 1844-12-09 Death: 1866-10-29
is to be spared to us
that this one is not to be withdrawn from us at least
at this time. For this great blessing I desire to be thankful
to Him who giveth and who taketh away and leaves
the children of his Providence – to find out the reason
of his ways.
It is now certain that we shall adjourn
tomorrow. I ought to go home at once and yet I ought
not to leave here for many days. I shall compromise
the matter by reaching home next week or early in the
week after. I can give you a better account of my
progress tomorrow evening when I shall have had time
to ascertain how long it will take me to do what
is thus far left undone.
I am most faithfully
Your own Henry.
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Henry March 22
1849