Letter from William Henry Seward to Benjamin Jennings Seward, November 30, 1839

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Letter from William Henry Seward to Benjamin Jennings Seward, November 30, 1839
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Institution:University of Rochester

Repository:Rare Books and Special Collections

Date:1839-11-30

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Letter from William Henry Seward to Benjamin Jennings Seward, November 30, 1839

action: sent

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

location: Albany, NY

receiver: Benjamin Seward
Birth: 1793-08-23  Death: 1841-02-24

location: Westfield, NY

transcription: srr 

revision: obm 2017-04-03

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(Private)
Albany Nov. 30th 1839
My dear Jennings,
Your letter & that to Mr. Taylor
Birth: 1794 Death: 1854-03-15Certainty: Probable
came safely.
I am glad to hear you are enjoying health and reasonable cheerfulness
The election’s over. I have a levee daily of fifty applicants besides thirty
letters. When I am to prepare a message Heaven Knows.
The Presidential question does not go smoothly. My hopes of
the right one clouded, Mr C -
Birth: 1777-04-12 Death: 1852-06-29
does not withdraw & N.Y. City bears
him up stoutly. The country in our state is right. The last proposition
of the letter be, me as some of them was to put me second under
him. This I absolutely refuse to be - that is to be in any event or
on any condition on the National ticket
All well. Your own brother
Henry
P.S.
I have a nice little a borrowed copy our dear
sister Cornelias
Birth: 1805 Death: 1839-01-04
picture, if you could safely send it but if you cannot let
it pass, I will have his copy mailed in N York.
Yours
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Unknown
Benjamin J. Seward Esq
Westfield
Chautauqua County
ALBANY
NOV
30
N.Y.
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Benjamin Seward

Birth: 1793-08-23 Death: 1841-02-24
November 30. 1839