Florida 12^th Feby 1825
My Dear William
The intimation in your last left much
anxiety on my mind relative to the health of
your beloved Francis. Is it yet in your power to
say that she is restored to her usual good health,
those cases ought not to be suffered to linger if
tone and vigour can possibly be restored to the
system. Have you an able and experienced
Physician—
I wrote you sometime since
the result of Westcott & Wickham business, and
requested you to forward a bill of cost in the
different suits. This has not been received. Will
you be so good as to make them out as particular
and distinct as possible and forward them by the
first mail—
We have it in contemplation to
place Washington for a term in a good thourouh
boarding school, but on reflection have
not discovered and fixed on any but what
has some exceptions. Much is said about the
Auburn school in your public prints are
they really sound or is this pufing. One
material object would be lost in placing

In placing him in your village, that is sending
him amongst entire strangers where he would
have to form his own character and depend
on his own responsibility. If nigh you he would
naturally ^look^ to that protection and support which he
would not expect from strangers. Are there
any thorough going schools to the north or west
suitable to form the stannary of a gentleman
farmer, within your knowledge. How stands
the Geneva Academy—W—situation requires
rigid rules and thorough going and constant
application to study in order to expand his
mind—as he hitherto had no competitors
and his studies have been altogether a
secondary object. Much benefit may be
derived also from his being placed in a
a genteel boarding house where his address
will be improved—
Make our best respects to your
worthy consort and friends
generally. Tell G. Ma Miller we
shall expect to see her in Florida
when the canal opens—
yours affectionately
Saml S. Seward

W^m H. Seward Esqr
Auburn
h Free
Seward, P.M
hS.S. Seward
Feb. 12^t
1825