Letter from Frances Miller Seward to William Henry Seward, August 5, 1852
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Letter from Frances Miller Seward to William Henry Seward, August 5,
1852
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Repository:Rare Books and Special Collections
Date:1852-08-05
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Letter from Frances Miller Seward to William Henry Seward, August 5, 1852
action: sent
sender: Frances Seward
Birth: 1805-09-24
Death: 1865-06-21
location: Auburn, NY
receiver: William Seward
Birth: 1801-05-16
Death: 1872-10-10
location: UnknownUnknown
transcription: cnk
revision: vxa 2019-03-08
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Aug – 5th —
My dear Henry
I have from you
three letters – Can I help
you any by coming
down? – or shall we
attempt to meet you
and go with you to
Vermont ? – Rutland
is very near Windsor –
I hope you have re-
covered from your cold.
I read on Monday
for the first a full
report of the debate
in the Senate on Mr
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Sumners
Such glaring injustice
cannot fail to
benefit him and
the cause – I should
have been very sorry
that you did not
speak, had I not
known how perfectly
useless it would have –
Any thing that you
could have said
would only have
irritated the Southern
men, and they were
some of them sufficiently
abusive without
provocation –
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Charley Seymour
is visiting Willie –
Carrie
Pic nic yesterday
and Fanny
party of little girls
at home – I spent
the evening amusing
them — your own
Frances—
Aug – 5th —
My dear Henry
I have from you
three letters – Can I help
you any by coming
down? – or shall we
attempt to meet you
and go with you to
Vermont ? – Rutland
is very near Windsor –
I hope you have re-
covered from your cold.
I read on Monday
for the first a full
report of the debate
in the Senate on Mr
Sumners
Birth: 1811-01-06 Death: 1874-03-11
motion –Such glaring injustice
cannot fail to
benefit him and
the cause – I should
have been very sorry
that you did not
speak, had I not
known how perfectly
useless it would have –
Any thing that you
could have said
would only have
irritated the Southern
men, and they were
some of them sufficiently
abusive without
provocation –
Charley Seymour
Birth: 1839
is visiting Willie –
Carrie
Birth: 1828-05-22 Death: 1906-12-09
went to
a Pic nic yesterday
and Fanny
Birth: 1844-12-09 Death: 1866-10-29
had
aparty of little girls
Unknown
at home – I spent
the evening amusing
them — your own
Frances—