Letter from Mahlon Dickerson Canfield to William Henry Seward, February 20, 1832
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Letter from Mahlon Dickerson Canfield to William Henry Seward, February 20, 1832
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Institution:University of Rochester
Repository:Rare Books and Special Collections
Date:1832-02-20
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Letter from Mahlon Dickerson Canfield to William Henry Seward, February 20, 1832
action: sent
sender:
Mahlon Canfield
Person
Name: Mahlon Canfield
Birth: 1798-11-26
Death: 1865-01-05
Person
location:
Bargaintown NJ
Place
Name: City: Bargaintown
County: Atlantic
State: NJ
Country: US
Place
receiver:
William Seward
Person
Name: William Seward
Birth: 1801-05-16
Death: 1872-10-10
Person
location:
UnknownUnknown
transcription: msr
revision: crb 2016-03-15
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Page 1
Bargain Town, Feb 20, 1832
Dear Henry, –
I am thrice happy in being able to inform
you, that this morning, Cornelia
Name: Louisa Canfield
Birth: 1805
Death: 1839-01-04
was brought safely through the worst
of the danger she so much feared. – She is again the mother
of a healthy boy
Name: Francis Canfield
Birth: 1832-02-20
Death: 1876-01-14
, and in as comfortable a way as could be
expected, considering how much she has suffered for the last
two months. –
Augustus
Name: Augustus Canfield
Birth: 1829-12-04
Death: 1867-10-25
seemed much at a loss what to make
of it, but true to his nature, he claimed the little stranger
as his own, and proceeded at once, to take possession by force,
Your letters of the 6th now received, you write
politics with as much show of zeal as if you really cared
any thing about the matter, For myself I must say that it has
dwindled into something like insignificance, No experience of
this winter would have taught me, even if I had not known it
before that my happiness lives at home.
Very truly yours
M.D. Canfield
W.H. Seward Esq
P.S. I should have mentioned that C has a letter from our F.
Name: Frances Seward
Birth: 1805-09-24
Death: 1865-06-21
and now I recollect she answered it by last mail –
Page 2
Bargain Town, Feb 20, 1832
Dear Henry, –
I am thrice happy in being able to inform
you, that this morning, Cornelia
Person
of the danger she so much feared. – She is again the mother
of a healthy boy
Person
expected, considering how much she has suffered for the last
two months. –
Augustus
Person
of it, but true to his nature, he claimed the little stranger
as his own, and proceeded at once, to take possession by force,
Your letters of the 6th now received, you write
politics with as much show of zeal as if you really cared
any thing about the matter, For myself I must say that it has
dwindled into something like insignificance, No experience of
this winter would have taught me, even if I had not known it
before that my happiness lives at home.
Very truly yours
M.D. Canfield
W.H. Seward Esq
P.S. I should have mentioned that C has a letter from our F.
Person
and now I recollect she answered it by last mail –
date:
Monday, February 20, 1832
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