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Mary Boyce
Birth: unknown
Death: unknown
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Seward family servant, particularly a nurse to WSJ, throughout the 1840s. On September 23, 1840, Frances writes to WHS concerning her travel plans to Albany: “Have the goodness to say to Harriet that I bring no one but a nurse with ( ) Mary Boyce..." And on October 8, 1840, Frances writes to WHS during her visit with the Webbs at Spring Lawn: "Mary was of very little use to me yesterday—my traveling with such a nurse is absurd enough and exceedingly uncomfortable we get along rather better now we are stationary." At another time, she feeds Willie some bad food and he has a fit of vomiting. Frances reports, "I find Mary rather a poor dependence for a nurse she is more heedless than Maria I suppose I can live until November and hope dear Willie will though I think his life in some danger."
Letter References
Letter from Frances Miller Seward to William Henry Seward, July 28, 1850
Letter from Frances Miller Seward to Lazette Miller Worden, February 28, 1847
Letter from William Henry Seward, Jr. to Augustus Henry Seward, January 18, 1846
Letter from Frances Miller Seward to Lazette Miller Worden, October 29, 1843
Letter from Frances Miller Seward to Clarinda Miller McClallen, September 27, 1840
Letter from Frances Miller Seward to Lazette Miller Worden, June 29, 1845
Letter from Frances Miller Seward to Lazette Miller Worden, June 26, 1842
Letter from Frances Miller Seward to Lazette Miller Worden, June 19, 1840
Letter from Frances Miller Seward to Lazette Miller Worden, November 24, 1840
Letter from Frances Miller Seward to Lazette Miller Worden, February 10, 1842
Letter from Frances Miller Seward to Lazette Miller Worden, December 16, 1842
Letter from Frances Miller Seward to Lazette Miller Worden, June 1, 1842
Letter from Frances Miller Seward to Augustus Henry Seward, September 27, 1840
Letter from Frances Miller Seward to Lazette Miller Worden, October 5, 1840
Letter from Frances Miller Seward to William Henry Seward, October 8, 1840
Letter from Frances Miller Seward to William Henry Seward, September 23, 1840
Letter from Frances Miller Seward to William Henry Seward, September 15, 1840
Letter from Frances Miller Seward to Clarinda McClallen Miller, October 4, 1840
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Seward family servant, particularly a nurse to WSJ, throughout the 1840s. On September 23, 1840, Frances writes to WHS concerning her travel plans to Albany: “Have the goodness to say to Harriet that I bring no one but a nurse with ( ) Mary Boyce..." And on October 8, 1840, Frances writes to WHS during her visit with the Webbs at Spring Lawn: "Mary was of very little use to me yesterday—my traveling with such a nurse is absurd enough and exceedingly uncomfortable we get along rather better now we are stationary." At another time, she feeds Willie some bad food and he has a fit of vomiting. Frances reports, "I find Mary rather a poor dependence
for a nurse she is more heedless than Maria
I suppose I can live until November and
hope dear Willie will though I think his
life in some danger."
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