Letter from Benjamin Jennings Seward to William Henry Seward, January 22, 1841

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Letter from Benjamin Jennings Seward to William Henry Seward, January 22, 1841

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Repository:Rare Books and Special Collections

Date:1841-01-22

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Letter from Benjamin Jennings Seward to William Henry Seward, January 22, 1841

action: sent

sender: Benjamin Seward
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Person

Name: Benjamin Seward Birth: 1793-08-23 Death: 1841-02-24

location: New York NY
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Place

Name:  City:  New York County:   State:  NY Country:  US

receiver: William Seward
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Person

Name: William Seward Birth: 1801-05-16 Death: 1872-10-10

location: Albany NY
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Place

Name:  City:  Albany County:  Albany State:  NY Country:  US

transcription: srr 

revision: crb 2015-12-17

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Life & Trust Office N.Y.
22 Jany. 1841
My dear Brother
Your remark in Mr Blatch- fords
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Person

Name: Samuel Blatchford Birth: 1820-03-09 Death: 1893-07-07
letter “that you do not hear from
me” not only prompted me to write, but
to offer apology for past silence. I love
to write - but in the excessiveness of your
occupations, I have feared to trouble
you. My triumphs with Mr Duer
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Person

Name: John Duer Birth: 1782-10-07 Death: 1858-08-08

have been so few that they have re-
quired little report - you know all,
and in regard to the politicks of the
city I am so strongly influenced with
the belief that your reasons ^sources^ of in-
information are ample & more authentic
than mine, that I am deterred from
writing. This feeling prevented me
from addressing you while in Washington
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Place

Name:  City:  Washington D.C. County:   State:  DC Country:  US
,

[left Margin] Mr Duer received little encouragement or comfort in
Washington

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If you have time to read I will
even now, remark upon one or two things
in Washington. Mr Granger
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Person

Name: Amos Granger Birth: 1789-06-03 Death: 1866-08-20
shows great
anxiety. Fillmore
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Person

Name: Millard Fillmore Birth: 1800-01-07 Death: 1874-03-08
is devoted - not so much
to him - as to the West, where his own
hopes lie. The unity & strength of which
he believes to require Mr Grangers appoint-
ment. The delegation, as a general thing
understand you to be somewhat indifferent
& with indifference in their own part ac-
cede to the proposition: and Mr Granger
stands well with others (I heard it said)
Clay
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Person

Name: Henry Clay Birth: 1777-04-12 Death: 1852-06-29
, Webster
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Person

Name: Daniel Webster Birth: 1782-01-18 Death: 1852-10-24
&c, & if any thing is done
for N.Y. it will be for Mr Granger.
I ventured the opinion in Fillmore’s
hearing, no where else, that from what I
know of Harrison’s
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Person

Name: Samuel Harrison Birth: 1780 Death: 1853-04
ambition to have more
of talents around him, it would
be doubtful whether Granger would renew
an offer: & the day following Fillmore
sent Morgan
Unknown
to me to advise caution.
He need not have sent: but it showed
feverishness.
On every occasion where Southern sen-
timent could be obtained, I brought up
the Virginia correspondence: and am of
the opinion that you have lost nothing
won among Southerners in this matter.
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I believe the South wish the state of V.-
to become quiet and I think too there
is an impression every where away the
intelligent & that your doctrine is the true
one & must be submitted to.
I have been more than pleased, in
Baltimore
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Place

Name:  City:  Baltimore County:   State:  MD Country:  US
, in Phil
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Place

Name:  City:  Philadelphia County:  Philadelphia State:  PA Country:  US
& Trenton
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Place

Name:  City:  Trenton County:  Mercer State:  NJ Country:  US
in each
of which I made a little stay, to hear
the sentiment that you are reputed to be
the only man in the state who
would have kept the state out
of the hands of the old regency
or can now keep your party in
[ the ]
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Reason: 
ascendant. I will not say
[ how ]
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Reason: 
happy it has made me to
see that you are appreciated abroad
nor how solictious I am that no
untowared occurrence may retard your usefulness-.
I was absent just two weeks - one of
which, was while Mr Duer was absent also.
I am, now, while writing waiting for a third
appointed meeting of the board on my business
without hope, almost, that it will be held
without another & more urgent call. Except
the week I refer to, I have not lost a day
or an hour in this affair from inattention on
my part. - Never doubt my attention to your
interests, and business. I shall force my affairs
along in a very few days - spend a short time
in Florida
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Place

Name:  City:  Florida County:  Orange State:  NY Country:  US
- and be with you. someday
with
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3 OClock a meeting was actually held -
Mr Duers decision in Chautaugua
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Place

Name: Chautauqua County City:   County:  Chautauqua State:  NY Country:  US
relating to
the terms upon which our mortgages should be
received, was ratified, and the mortgages are
received. But the meeting had other business &
grew impatient, so that the propositions relating
to the business of Cook
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Person

Name: Horace Cook Birth: 1822-07-22 Death: 1897-05-28
& all and others, it was
determined should be referred to the Finance
Committee for another day. No objection was made
to your proposition.
I hope your health will continue to improve
and you may have leisure for me for an hour
I have much to say which cannot be written.
Your unworthy grateful happy brother B.J.S.
Wm H Seward Esq
Albany
N.Y.
New York Jun 22
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Stamp

Type: postmark

seward-pen
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Person

Name: Samuel Blatchford Birth: 1820-03-09 Death: 1893-07-07
B.J. Seward
Jan 22. 1841
date: 
Friday, January 22, 1841
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