Letter from Alvah H. Worden to William Henry Seward, July 26, 1838

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Date:1838-07-26

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Letter from Alvah H. Worden to William Henry Seward, July 26, 1838

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sender: Alvah Worden
Birth: 1797-03-06  Death: 1856-02-16

location: Canandaigua, NY

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

location: Unknown
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transcription: mah 

revision: crb 2016-02-04

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Canandaigua July 26 1838
Dear Seward
For the last month I have been completely overwhelmed
with law business and have thought of little else and surely I
have done nothing else: and as to political movements I am
wholy ignorant in regard to them: I have had some conversation
with G___s
Birth: 1792-12-01 Death: 1868-08-31
friends, they feel sanguine, or pretend to feel so and
profess to regret the reality which obliges them to choose between
him and you: you doubtless saw granger in Albany, he
called on me the morning before he left home: nothing passed between
us: he regretted the article in the Schenectady Freeman and we
had some conversation about it, we compared notes a little about
the alleged getting up of the convention, and I gave him to un-
derstand that the action in Monroe came all from his friends
and that I had made a personal effort to obtain its postpone-
ment: G professed that such was his own views and that he
had no agency in getting it up and acquitted you of any,
- G did not even know when the convention was held in this
County, and the resolution for postponement was here introduced
by my advice: and in perfect accordance with G views as he
said.
Sibley
Birth: 1796-11-06 Death: 1852-09-08
is sick in New York at Ruggles
Birth: 1800-04-11 Death: 1881-08-28
house he was taken
down a week ago today. Mrs Sibley
Birth: 1802-01-29 Death: 1877-05-21
went on on Sunday Eve-
ning. We recd a letter from Ruggles today. Which is not the
most cheering, and evidently shows that Sibley is a very sick
man and that the crisis ^in his disease^ has not been passed. Ruggles says
no serious apprehensions are entertained: he has the Dysentery ac-
companied with inflammation in the bowels
I can expect no aid from Sibley in our Law business
and I want a clerk who is reliable: and who understands prac-
tice and who I can entrust with the details of business: at
one time this spring we had 80 causes in full blast, and we
have a good many very important ones. I have been thinking
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of George Humphrey
Birth: 1814-03-15 Death: 1885-06-09
. George must be somewhat rusty in the
practice: and if he would take hold with us until next spring
say a year I would do what was reasonable: he cannot
find a better place to perfect time in practice: and he can
have as much variety of Legal principles as well as variety
of practice as he can find any wheres: It would be a better
position for him than he can find in New York, as I doubt
if such a variety of practice could be found in any ^ones^ offices
there: What do you think of this:
You spoke to me about some law books. There
are some old law reports we have not got, are your books in
use, if not I could use some of them to advantage.
When are you going West, let me know
Yours Truly
A Worden
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William Seward

Birth: 1801-05-16 Death: 1872-10-10
Alvah Worden
July 26. 1838.