Letter from Myron O. Wilder to Frances Miller Seward, Feburary 21, 1851
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Letter from Myron O. Wilder to Frances Miller Seward, Feburary 21,
1851
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Repository:Rare Books and Special Collections
Date:1851-02-21
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Letter from Myron O. Wilder to Frances Miller Seward, Feburary 21, 1851
action: sent
sender: Myron Wilder
Birth: 1822
Death: 1855-04-29
location: Canandaigua, NY
receiver: Frances Seward
Birth: 1805-09-24
Death: 1865-06-21
location: Washington D.C., US
transcription: csh
revision: csh 2016-11-14
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Canandaigua, February 21, 1851.
My dear Friends,
It has been in my mind all day to day,
spite of any attempt to hope that it would not be noticed, that
my last letter had in it an expression which in appearance
is ungentle and in mean spirit; It is in the line in which
I say that they who take wine at dinner ought to drink the
glasses to the bottom. I cannot escape the conviction to day that
this looks like trying to sting. I trust you each know me
well enough to believe that I would not do that; I am unwilling
any apparent fact should war against such belief. I hope
you will burn the mentioned letter, at least do strike out
the line. It is true I am indeed sorry that any body drinks
wine as a beverage, believing as I do that many evils naturally
flow from its use, but this is a proper way it to say it if
I say anything. In writing that letter my object was not
to write a temperance Lecture at all. The line stole in
under the temptation temptation of the ludicrousness of
offering such a cure for such a case as I was naming of
Edward's
I feel that this whole sheet may be boyish,
but I am glad I have written it. You can burn this
sheet and the other.
Mr. Worden
attack of the lumbago. He was in court today about all
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day (as long as the cause lasted) trying a cause. Mr. Theron
R. Strong
side.
Affectionately,
Myron OWilder.
Mrs. Worden
Mrs. Seward.
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Mrs Worden and Mrs Seward
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Mr Wilder
March 1851
Canandaigua, February 21, 1851.
My dear Friends,
It has been in my mind all day to day,
spite of any attempt to hope that it would not be noticed, that
my last letter had in it an expression which in appearance
is ungentle and in mean spirit; It is in the line in which
I say that they who take wine at dinner ought to drink the
glasses to the bottom. I cannot escape the conviction to day that
this looks like trying to sting. I trust you each know me
well enough to believe that I would not do that; I am unwilling
any apparent fact should war against such belief. I hope
you will burn the mentioned letter, at least do strike out
the line. It is true I am indeed sorry that any body drinks
wine as a beverage, believing as I do that many evils naturally
flow from its use, but this is a proper way it to say it if
I say anything. In writing that letter my object was not
to write a temperance Lecture at all. The line stole in
under the temptation temptation of the ludicrousness of
offering such a cure for such a case as I was naming of
Edward's
Unknown
. It was wrong.I feel that this whole sheet may be boyish,
but I am glad I have written it. You can burn this
sheet and the other.
Mr. Worden
Birth: 1797-03-06 Death: 1856-02-16
is better of his recentattack of the lumbago. He was in court today about all
day (as long as the cause lasted) trying a cause. Mr. Theron
R. Strong
Birth: 1802-11-07 Death: 1873-05-14
, of Palmyra, was counsel upon the otherside.
Affectionately,
Myron OWilder.
Mrs. Worden
Birth: 1803-11-01 Death: 1875-10-03
,Mrs. Seward.
Mrs Worden and Mrs Seward
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Hand Shift
Birth: 1805-09-24 Death: 1865-06-21Frances Seward
March 1851