Letter from Rachel Armstrong Seward to Frances Miller Seward, April 5, 1835
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Letter from Rachel Armstrong Seward to Frances Miller Seward, April 5, 1835
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Date:1835-04-05
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Letter from Rachel Armstrong Seward to Frances Miller Seward, April 5, 1835
action: sent
sender: Rachel Seward
Birth: 1805-07-15
Death: 1848-05-14
location: Summerville, NY
receiver: Frances Seward
Birth: 1805-09-24
Death: 1865-06-21
location: Auburn, NY
transcription: keh
revision: ekk 2016-03-07
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Summerville April 5th 1835
Dear Sister
I acknowledge the receipt of a letter from your
good husband
your health is still so feble I hope when the weather becomes
setled you will be better. I consider myself under obligations
to you already and could not accept of the assistance offerd
in your good husbands letter if I was not in great want of
many things which I cannot ask father
so tried with Polydores
making my wants known. I have been so buisy since I
received your letter and have not had time to think of anything
scarcely but my daily employment. I have got moved and
begin to feel a little more setled. I have taken the back room
for my living room the parlor and a bedroom above for my
part of the house I think we shal have pleasant people to live
with I like them verry much so far. I hope the most pinching
time is over with me – father says he intends the rent of the place
to be for our support it will be some-time yet before any
thing will be paid. I have been almost wild about moveing
to Bargaintown father has been quite anxious that we should
go but I believe that jennings
is not best. The last letter I received from my husband he had
given up the idea of our moveing there but thought he would
stay for 6 months longer. I received a letter from Doct
Canfield
does about our moveing there they say Polydore has mistaken
ideas altogether about the place and was determined not to
be easyly persuaded
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My health is not so good as it has formerly been but
I believe it is nothing but anxiety of mind. I talk of
going back with Polidore to make a visit if our children
should should keep well the scarlet fever is all around us
I fear mine will have it – our florida friends are well
I believe they were the last I heard from them
my little ones are all around me
and it is almost imposible to make a letter inteligable
you can see this by my crooked writing
Kiss the children for me
I remain your affectionate
Sister
L. Seward
P.S
I have nothing my dear sister
to offer you in return for your
kindness but a thankful heart
and my feeble prayres that the
lord will abundently bless you
and again restore you to health
h
Lockey - Seward –
April 1835
Summerville April 5th 1835
Dear Sister
I acknowledge the receipt of a letter from your
good husband
Birth: 1801-05-16 Death: 1872-10-10
writen by your request and am sorry to hear thatyour health is still so feble I hope when the weather becomes
setled you will be better. I consider myself under obligations
to you already and could not accept of the assistance offerd
in your good husbands letter if I was not in great want of
many things which I cannot ask father
Birth: 1768-12-05 Death: 1849-08-24
for – he has beenso tried with Polydores
Birth: 1799 Death: 1872-04-23
business that I feel backward aboutmaking my wants known. I have been so buisy since I
received your letter and have not had time to think of anything
scarcely but my daily employment. I have got moved and
begin to feel a little more setled. I have taken the back room
for my living room the parlor and a bedroom above for my
part of the house I think we shal have pleasant people to live
with I like them verry much so far. I hope the most pinching
time is over with me – father says he intends the rent of the place
to be for our support it will be some-time yet before any
thing will be paid. I have been almost wild about moveing
to Bargaintown father has been quite anxious that we should
go but I believe that jennings
Birth: 1793-08-23 Death: 1841-02-24
has convinced him that itis not best. The last letter I received from my husband he had
given up the idea of our moveing there but thought he would
stay for 6 months longer. I received a letter from Doct
Canfield
Birth: 1798-11-26 Death: 1865-01-05
& Cornelia
Birth: 1805 Death: 1839-01-04
last week they say exactly as your husbanddoes about our moveing there they say Polydore has mistaken
ideas altogether about the place and was determined not to
be easyly persuaded
To influence by argument, advice, or intreaty • To convince by arguments, or reasons offered •
out of them.My health is not so good as it has formerly been but
I believe it is nothing but anxiety of mind. I talk of
going back with Polidore to make a visit if our children
Birth: 1834-02
Death: 1836-05-11
Birth: 1833
Death: 1892
Birth: 1830-04
Death: 1835-11-22
Birth: 1828
Death: 1905
should should keep well the scarlet fever is all around us
I fear mine will have it – our florida friends are well
I believe they were the last I heard from them
my little ones are all around me
and it is almost imposible to make a letter inteligable
you can see this by my crooked writing
Kiss the children
Birth: 1830-07-08
Death: 1915-04-25
Birth: 1826-10-01
Death: 1876-09-11
I remain your affectionate
Sister
L. Seward
P.S
I have nothing my dear sister
to offer you in return for your
kindness but a thankful heart
and my feeble prayres that the
lord will abundently bless you
and again restore you to health
h
Hand Shift
Birth: 1805-09-24 Death: 1865-06-21Frances Seward
April 1835