Letter from Frederick William Seward to William Henry Seward, August 23, 1866
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Letter from Frederick William Seward to William Henry Seward, August 23, 1866
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Date:1866-08-23
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Letter from Frederick William Seward to William Henry Seward, August 23, 1866
action: sent
sender:
Frederick Seward
Person
Name: Frederick Seward
Birth: 1830-07-08
Death: 1915-04-25
Person
location:
Newport RI
Place
Name: City: Newport
County: Newport
State: RI
Country: US
Place
receiver:
William Seward
Person
Name: William Seward
Birth: 1801-05-16
Death: 1872-10-10
Person
location:
Washington D.C. DC
Place
Name: City: Washington D.C.
County:
State: DC
Country: US
Place
transcription: ahf
revision: crb 2015-06-16
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Page 1
Newport, Thursday
My dear Father,
This is your day
for diplomatic visits, but I think
you can hardly have a quorum of
the Corps at Washington, three
quarters of them being here.
Last night Mr Phelps
Name: Abner Phelps
Birth: 1779-09-08
Death: 1873-02-24Certainty: Possible
and
Mr Russell
Name: William Russell
Birth: 1820-03-28
Death: 1907-02-11Certainty: Possible
, of New York
Name: City:
County:
State: NY
Country: US
, and
Baron Grabow
Name: Guido von Grabow
Birth: 1834
Death:
came to dinner. Today
Page 2
is rainy, windy and stormy; so that
we do not venture out doors.
We shall hear tomorrow of the
action of the Saratoga
Name: City: Saratoga
County: Saratoga
State: NY
Country: US
Convention.
Opinions here I suppose, are a
tolerable reflex of those in New York
and Boston
Name: City: Boston
County: Suffolk
State: MA
Country: US
. Almost everybody you
meet takes pains to say that he is
in favor if the Call of the Philadel- phia
Name: City: Philadelphia
County: Philadelphia
State: PA
Country: US
Convention, coupling with it a
dubious apprehension of its possible
perverted action, the names of
Vallandigham
Name: Clement Vallandigham
Birth: 1820-07-29
Death: 1871-06-17
and Fernando Wood
Name: Fernando Wood
Birth: 1812-06-14
Death: 1881-02-14
being the great bugbears.
Page 3
Newport, Thursday
My dear Father,
This is your day
for diplomatic visits, but I think
you can hardly have a quorum of
the Corps at Washington, three
quarters of them being here.
Last night Mr Phelps
Person
Mr Russell
Person
Place
Baron Grabow
Person
is rainy, windy and stormy; so that
we do not venture out doors.
We shall hear tomorrow of the
action of the Saratoga
Place
Opinions here I suppose, are a
tolerable reflex of those in New York
and Boston
Place
meet takes pains to say that he is
in favor if the Call of the Philadel- phia
Place
dubious apprehension of its possible
perverted action, the names of
Vallandigham
Person
Person
being the great bugbears.
date:
Thursday, August 23, 1866
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