Letter from Louisa Cornelia Seward Canfield to William Henry Seward, Novemer 17, 1834
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Letter from Louisa Cornelia Canfield to William Henry Seward, Novemer 17, 1834
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Date:1834-11-17
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Letter from Louisa Cornelia Canfield to William Henry Seward, Novemer 17, 1834
action: sent
sender:
Louisa Canfield
Person
Name: Louisa Canfield
Birth: 1805
Death: 1839-01-04
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: meb
revision: crb 2016-03-21
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Bargain Town November 17th —
My dear Brother,
I have received your letter of the 11th Ult.
I cannot conceal the truth that the unwelcome intelligence
contained in it, both surprized and afflicted me & so apt we are
to believe will be what we wish should come to pass,
It would seem from a previous letter that you did not
count me among your political well wishers — I assure you
my own dear Brother, few, very few events of my life have
filled me with so much anxiety as this subject —
I had indulged the hope of your success on your own
and Frances’s
Name: Frances Seward
Birth: 1805-09-24
Death: 1865-06-21
account, and not less for the sake of our
aged loved and respected Parents
Name: Samuel Seward
Birth: 1768-12-05
Death: 1849-08-24
Name: Mary Seward
Birth: 1769-11-27
Death: 1844-12-11
— it would have been to
Father especially a source of unmingled happiness, fondly if
not certainly anticipated —
To yourself it is almost nothing, your busy life, numerous
engagements, the happiness of your domestic circle, the
always prossperous condition of your pecuniary
affairs and the unheard of popularity of one so young
as yourself, a popularity not only great in extent but
in its very nature like an universal friendship are enough
and more than enough to atone, for all you have not gained,
for you have lost nothing —
Mahlon
Name: Mahlon Canfield
Birth: 1798-11-26
Death: 1865-01-05
differs from you politically but does not allow any
unkindness to grow out of such differences, he has frequently
expressed wishes for your success, for the same reasons that
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I have wished it — you wrong him if you think he could
could be indifferent or opposed to you in such a case —
We regret to learn that Frances is still indisposed
we hope soon to hear she is about.
Mahlon joins me in kind regards to you all —
We are all well — write me soon
I am as ever your
own Sister
Cornelia
Wm H. Seward
[right Margin]
Name: William Seward
Birth: 1801-05-16
Death: 1872-10-10
L. C. Canfield
Nov. 17. 1834
Bargain Town November 17th —
My dear Brother,
I have received your letter of the 11th Ult.
I cannot conceal the truth that the unwelcome intelligence
contained in it, both surprized and afflicted me & so apt we are
to believe will be what we wish should come to pass,
It would seem from a previous letter that you did not
count me among your political well wishers — I assure you
my own dear Brother, few, very few events of my life have
filled me with so much anxiety as this subject —
I had indulged the hope of your success on your own
and Frances’s
Person
aged loved and respected Parents
People
Father especially a source of unmingled happiness, fondly if
not certainly anticipated —
To yourself it is almost nothing, your busy life, numerous
engagements, the happiness of your domestic circle, the
always prossperous condition of your pecuniary
affairs and the unheard of popularity of one so young
as yourself, a popularity not only great in extent but
in its very nature like an universal friendship are enough
and more than enough to atone, for all you have not gained,
for you have lost nothing —
Mahlon
Person
unkindness to grow out of such differences, he has frequently
expressed wishes for your success, for the same reasons that
I have wished it — you wrong him if you think he could
could be indifferent or opposed to you in such a case —
We regret to learn that Frances is still indisposed
we hope soon to hear she is about.
Mahlon joins me in kind regards to you all —
We are all well — write me soon
I am as ever your
own Sister
Cornelia
Wm H. Seward
[right Margin]
Person
Nov. 17. 1834
date:
Monday, November 17, 1834
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