Letter from William Henry Seward to Frances Miller Seward, August 26, 1834
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Letter from William Henry Seward to Frances Miller Seward, August 26, 1834
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Letter from William Henry Seward to Frances Miller Seward, August 26, 1834
action: sent
sender:
William Seward
Person
Name: William Seward
Birth: 1801-05-16
Death: 1872-10-10
Person
location:
Albany NY
Place
Name: City: Albany
County: Albany
State: NY
Country: US
Place
receiver:
Frances Seward
Person
Name: Frances Seward
Birth: 1805-09-24
Death: 1865-06-21
Person
location:
Auburn NY
Place
Name: City: Auburn
County: Cayuga
State: NY
Country: US
Place
transcription: gew
revision: ekk 2015-06-23
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New York Tuesday 26th, August.
My dearest Frances,
I destroy a letter I had just closed to acknowledge the
arrival of your very kind letter. I am glad to learn that your father
Name: Elijah Miller
Birth: 1772-04-11
Death: 1851-11-13
’s
health is again such that you are no longer alarmed. Presuming it
to be safe I shall not expedite my departure as on reading your
letter for the first time I determined to do.
You will be surprised to learn that the Court of Errors has
adjourned until November. Such is the fact - we adjourned this
morning for want of business on the appeal calendar, and
the Chancellor
Name: Reuben Walworth
Birth: 1788-10-26
Death: 1867-11-27
being unable to be with us until next week
to dispose of the Writs of Error which we were unwilling to
take up unless he were present. The adjournment has no
connection with the malady in the city concerning which
no alarm is felt. Should you be unable to understand
the reason as above assigned your father to whom you will
please hand this letter will explain it.
Of course I am left just as might be expected with a
multiplicity of business not yet looked at and with an
interrupted series of projects for the week. My first im-
pression was that I could go tomorrow morning to Phil- adelphia
Name: City: Philadelphia
County: Philadelphia
State: PA
Country: US
and visit Cornelia
Name: Louisa Canfield
Birth: 1805
Death: 1839-01-04
which I certainly would
do if you were with me. But I am weary of travelling.
My heart has no longer pleasure in it. I cannot go alone
two hundred miles. I hear that her little boy
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and that she is moreover made happy if increase of children
be a blessing by the birth of a daughter
Name: Caroline Beattie
Birth: 1834-07-25
Death: 1922-02-28
. I am not certain
that
I do right in not visiting her, but I should all the time (and it
would require six days) be regretting the inward absence from
you and the boys. I think it must be postponed until next
summer when you can go with me.
I will endeavor to do up my business tomorrow and
go up to Goshen
Name: City: Goshen
County: Orange
State: NY
Country: US
where I will stay one or two days and
then set my face homeward.
I am entirely satisfied with the bargain about the piano
if the instrument meets your wishes. You see that the min-
iature affair falls to the ground.
I must send short letters in order not to prolong my
absence.
Adieu, dearest,
Your own Henry.
We heard this morning of the death of our old friend Mr Hasbrouck
Name: Louis Hasbrouck
Birth: 1777-04-22
Death: 1834-08-20
of the Senate by
Apoplexy. Who would have
thought that he was less safe at home than we in the
midst of the pestilence.
Page 3
Mr. William H. Seward
Auburn
Name: Frances Seward
Birth: 1805-09-24
Death: 1865-06-21
Henry August 24
1834
New York Tuesday 26th, August.
My dearest Frances,
I destroy a letter I had just closed to acknowledge the
arrival of your very kind letter. I am glad to learn that your father
Person
health is again such that you are no longer alarmed. Presuming it
to be safe I shall not expedite my departure as on reading your
letter for the first time I determined to do.
You will be surprised to learn that the Court of Errors has
adjourned until November. Such is the fact - we adjourned this
morning for want of business on the appeal calendar, and
the Chancellor
Person
to dispose of the Writs of Error which we were unwilling to
take up unless he were present. The adjournment has no
connection with the malady in the city concerning which
no alarm is felt. Should you be unable to understand
the reason as above assigned your father to whom you will
please hand this letter will explain it.
Of course I am left just as might be expected with a
multiplicity of business not yet looked at and with an
interrupted series of projects for the week. My first im-
pression was that I could go tomorrow morning to Phil- adelphia
Place
Person
do if you were with me. But I am weary of travelling.
My heart has no longer pleasure in it. I cannot go alone
two hundred miles. I hear that her little boy
Unknown
is betterand that she is moreover made happy if increase of children
be a blessing by the birth of a daughter
Person
I do right in not visiting her, but I should all the time (and it
would require six days) be regretting the inward absence from
you and the boys. I think it must be postponed until next
summer when you can go with me.
I will endeavor to do up my business tomorrow and
go up to Goshen
Place
then set my face homeward.
I am entirely satisfied with the bargain about the piano
if the instrument meets your wishes. You see that the min-
iature affair falls to the ground.
I must send short letters in order not to prolong my
absence.
Adieu, dearest,
Your own Henry.
We heard this morning of the death of our old friend Mr Hasbrouck
Person
thought that he was less safe at home than we in the
midst of the pestilence.
Mr. William H. Seward
Auburn
Person
1834
date:
Tuesday, August 26, 1834
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