Geneva College January 21^st 46
My Dear Willie
Your very kind affectionate and unexpected note
which I received last night has come to hand, safe in limb & body
This mundane sphere, is untroubled at present by any cloud
or storm of adversity. But to descend from “the sublime to the” common
sense, I am very much obliged to you for your letter, and am well
pleased with it in all respects but two namely, chirography
& postage As a remedy for the first I would reccommend
an improvement, and for the second, that it should be paid
for it is a lamentable but nevertheless true state of affairs
with persons in college that postage money is always wanting
money can be had for anything else, but when the letters are
unpaid, alas you have to borrow. Now for an answer to
your numerous questions. First I shall be “at home” exactly
twelve weeks from this week Thursday. Second. My longest
vacation is six weeks. “Stein” is very glad to learn that Snips
foot is better. I have no doubt that Carlo presented quite an amusing
appearance. I should be very sorry to put you to the inconvenience of
propelling yourself to your mother, in consequence of my calling you
Flukes, so I promise not to call you so “any more ever” until I come home again
I am unable to find the sentence in “Shakespeare”) to which you refer,

the next time you write I wish you would designate the play Act
and scene. The snow has been performing the same operation here
as it has in Auburn, and from what I can judge is likely to perform it.
There has nothing new taken place, except I have changed my boarding
house for another, where I found a Maltese cat named — Oh what a funny
name — not Flukes — but Beauty.
Give my best love to all.
Your affectionate cousin
Clarence A. Seward
To
William H. Seward Jr.

hClarence Jan ^22^
1846
hWilliam H. Seward Jr
Care of
William H. Seward
Auburn
N.Y.
Geneva N.Y.
Jan 22