Letter from William Henry Seward to Frances Miller Seward, April 20, 1864

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Letter from William Henry Seward to Frances Miller Seward, April 20, 1864

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Distributor:Seward Family Digital Archive

Institution:University of Rochester

Repository:Rare Books and Special Collections

Date:1864-04-20

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Letter from William Henry Seward to Frances Miller Seward, April 20, 1864

action: sent

sender: William Seward
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Person

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

location: Washington D.C. DC
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Place

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

receiver: Frances Seward
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Person

Name: Frances Seward Birth: 1805-09-24 Death: 1865-06-21

location: Unknown
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transcription: lmd 

revision: obm 2016-09-02

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Department of State
Washington, April 20 1864
My dearest Frances
Frederick
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Person

Name: Frederick Seward Birth: 1830-07-08 Death: 1915-04-25
has just
shown me your letter. I regret very
much to hear that Lazette
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Person

Name: Lazette Worden Birth: 1803-11-01 Death: 1875-10-03
has
not improved so much as we
have supposed.
I am glad that you
got your contraband boy
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Person

Name:   Birth:  Death: 
very safely
to his new home.
We are saddened with
military misfortunes. The Fort Pillow
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Place

Name:  City:   County:   State:   Country:  
massacre is shocking and
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horrible. While it is now clear that
in any case the slave holders would
have made this war one of bar-
barity to the negroes and so
have provoked retaliation I nev-
ertheless cant sufficiently regret
and deplore every rash and
violent utterance on our side
which can now be quieted by
way of finding a subterfuge on their
part. A war of ideas is always
a fearful war. It is made doubly
fearful by the wild indulgence of
the passions.
The woes in Louisiana
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Place

Name:  City:   County:   State:  LA Country:  US
is another
painful lesson that the chances
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of battle are nearly equal and
that success is even less by skill
and valor than by the
employment of superior force.
If the weather remains fair we
shall probably have new con-
flicts in more fields than one.
Our home is lonely without
Anna
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Person

Name:   Birth:  Death: 
and Fanny
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Person

Name: Frances Seward Birth: 1844-12-09 Death: 1866-10-29
.
Mr Cary
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Person

Name: Trumbull Cary Birth: 1787-08-11 Death: 1869-06-20Certainty: Probable
seems to have
enjoyed his visit. He proposes
to leave us tomorrow
Ever your own Henry.
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seward-pen
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Person

Name: Frances Seward Birth: 1805-09-24 Death: 1865-06-21
Henry April
20
1864

date: 
Wednesday, April 20, 1864
year: 
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