Letter from Caroline Matilda Taylor to Frances Miller Seward, August 23, 1851

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Letter from Caroline Matilda Taylor to Frances Miller Seward, August 23, 1851
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Repository:Rare Books and Special Collections

Date:1851-08-23

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Letter from Caroline Matilda Taylor to Frances Miller Seward, August 23, 1851

action: sent

sender: Caroline Taylor
Birth: 1810  Death: 1866-05-17

location: Albany, NY

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

location: Auburn, NY

transcription: msr 

revision: sss 2016-11-14

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Albany 23d 1851
Augt——
My dear Mrs Seward,
Your affectionate &
welcome missive found
me in my sick bed, with
a violent cough & cold; of
which I am now convales-
cent—but too much of
an invalid to leave home.
Your parterre has
no flower so refreshing, or
so beautiful to me—as
your own sincere & warm
hearted affection; & I wish
I could recreate a few days
in your agreeable society;
but my husband
Birth: 1794 Death: 1854-03-15
has
already taken his recess

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Frances Seward

Birth: 1805-09-24 Death: 1865-06-21
Mrs Taylor
Aug—1851
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Caroline Taylor

Birth: 1810 Death: 1866-05-17
from his ardous labours, &
I too am expecting a
“glimpse of sunshine”
from the presence of my
daughter
Birth: 1825-02-12 Death: 1906-09-09
& her child
Birth: 1848-08-30 Death: 1941-09-15
too
soon; to allow me the
hope of of visiting “Sweet
Auburn” at present.
May I not hope at some
future period to be an
inmate of the hospitable
Mansion of friends whom
I so truly love, as I do
Mr
Birth: 1801-05-16 Death: 1872-10-10
, Mrs Seward & “Fred”;
Birth: 1830-07-08 Death: 1915-04-25

for he is one of my
choice spirits among
the Youth, in whom I
take a deep interest?
Yes, Years are flitting
away, and yet I feel
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more strongly attached
to Pastt. I love more
fondly, I feel more deeply,
I sympathise more truly,
and see more gratefully
all the rich treasures of
our Sovereign Benefactor’s
love & bounty, and dread
more the cold, cold Grave;
to which Youth, Beauty,
Talent, Virtue, & Goodness—
— all—must be consigned.
I often wish this heart of
mine was freed from the
wretched vanities of this
unsatisfying world; and I
possessed more of the quiet
& gentle spirit of—
a friend.
Mr. Taylor & my daug-
hters
x Birth: 1824  Death: 1874-08-09  Birth: 1832  Death:  
write in cordial
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affection & thanks to your-
self for your polite
invitation: & we all
request you & Mr Seward
together with our young
friend Fred to remember
us kindly, as among those
of whose Friendship
you are well assured:
Most affecly & sincerely,
Yours,
Caroline Matilda Taylor
However “especially your
heart may have been drawn” to
me by the fearful alarm “by
flood,” still I, nor we had no
claim to your sympathy, as
we were not the sufferers: but
the family of Mr James Taylor
of this City – The Grocer, the singer,
the toaster, the Politician.
Adieu—