Letter from William Henry Seward to Frances Miller Seward, October 7, 1859
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Letter from William Henry Seward to Frances Miller Seward, October 7, 1859
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Institution:University of Rochester
Repository:Rare Books and Special Collections
Date:1859-10-07
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Letter from William Henry Seward to Frances Miller Seward, October 7, 1859
action: sent
sender: William Seward
Birth: 1801-05-16
Death: 1872-10-10
location: Alexandria, Egypt
receiver: Frances Seward
Birth: 1805-09-24
Death: 1865-06-21
location: Auburn, NY
transcription: cnk
revision: jxw 2021-09-19
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Editorial Note
Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday Wednesday, Thursday
Friday, seven days. This has been a long voyage, ^only^ three
hundred miles from Jaffa, and only just now entering
the port of Cleopatra. Time must have been of no account
to the ancients. Julius Cesar and Pompey, and Alexander
and Napoleon
Birth: 1769-08-15 Death: 1821-05-05
had no such ill luck [hole]
up
12 days in making only 400 miles. Well, I suppose it is
quite as well. But for the rough and boisterous seas
of the last two days I should have bid occasion
to remember the Mediterranean only as a smooth mirror
tuned to reflect blue and starry skies. Nor should
I have known how helplessly like a log even
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the proudest ship of war in our navy has when
the winds mounting and the waves become rebellious
I close this letter to secure for it all possible time.
I wish I could say when and where I shall go next.
But, all my calculations are defeated. Quarantines
stare us in the face. I shall get away from Alexandria
not at my own pleasure, but when in whatever way
I best can. Let it suffice that in every event I go
Westward and that though the days lengthen as I
go they will bring me home weary of wanderings
and surfeited of sights and men.
Ever your own Henry.
Mrs William H. Seward.
Auburn.
State of New York.
United States of America
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Consulate of the U.S. Alexandria
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Birth: 1805-09-24 Death: 1865-06-21Frances Seward
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W.H.S. Letters
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Birth: 1805-09-24 Death: 1865-06-21Frances Seward
Jerusalem
September 26th
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