Letter from William Henry Seward, Jr. to William Henry Seward, August 6, 1866

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Letter from William Henry Seward, Jr. to William Henry Seward, August 6, 1866

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Distributor:Seward Family Digital Archive

Institution:University of Rochester

Repository:Rare Books and Special Collections

Date:1866-08-06

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Letter from William Henry Seward, Jr. to William Henry Seward, August 6, 1866

action: sent

sender: William Seward
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Person

Name: William Seward Birth: 1839-06-18 Death: 1920-04-29

location: Chicago IL
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Place

Name:  City:  Chicago County:  Cook State:  IL Country:  US

receiver: William Seward
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Person

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

location: Unknown
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transcription: lxw 

revision: obm 2016-10-27

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SHERMAN HOUSE,
Chicago Aug 6 1866
My dear Father
I enclose
a letter just received from
Jenny
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Person

Name: Janet Seward Birth: 1839-11-18 Death: 1913-11-09
which I think
will give you a fuller
idea of Fannys
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Person

Name: Frances Seward Birth: 1844-12-09 Death: 1866-10-29
health
that you now have.
Both Jenny and myself
have been very anxious
about Fanny since her
arrival in Auburn
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Place

Name:  City:  Auburn County:  Cayuga State:  NY Country:  US
, and
before leaving home I wrote
a letter to Dr Norris
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Person

Name: Basil Norris Birth: 1828-03-09 Death: 1895-11-10
giving
him a full statement of her
symptoms and asking his
advice, I also ask Dr Robinson Jr
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Person

Name: Horatio Robinson Birth: 1830-06-24 Death: 1891-04-27
to see Fanny
and examine her lungs as
I felt almost sure that
her difficulty was more
than ordinary fever
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the result is what I most
feared and yet by careful
nursing and watching I
hope and the Doctor says
she can be cured.
Fanny herself has been very
unwilling to let you know
just how she was for
two reasons. First and by
far most important in her
mind, because she disliked
to add to your cares the
uneasiness that it would cause
you and second because
she was afraid you would
think she was not as well
in Auburn as at Washington
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Place

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

on the last point I have
talked with her considerable
and think that she is just
about the same as she was
when in Washington. She
seems to enjoy the quiet of
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our Auburn home very
much and during the
hot weather is perhaps
more comfortable than
she would be at Washington
Jenny you may be sure
will see that she has the
best of nursing and we
shall leave nothing undone
to add to her comfort and to
bring about a return of health
for which we are all so axious.
For the present or at least
until you come home I
think it would be well
for her to remain under Dr
Robinsons care
I leave here tomorrow for
St Louis
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Place

Name:  City:  St. Louis County:   State:  MO Country:  US
and shall probably
reach home about the 14
You Affectionate Son
WH Seward Jr
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I could not feel that
it was right for you
to be unacquainted with
the facts in regard to
Fanny and have only
written them now because
I was afraid in writing
herself she would in her
anxiety to relieve you omitt
to tell all
seward-pen
Unknown
Aug 6/66
WHS jr
Chicago

date: 
Monday, August 6, 1866
year: 
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