Letter from James Brown Clay to Frances Miller Seward, 1841
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Letter from James Brown Clay to Frances Miller Seward, 1841
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Institution:University of Rochester
Repository:Rare Books and Special Collections
Date:1841
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Letter from James Brown Clay to Frances Miller Seward, 1841
action: sent
sender: James Clay
Birth: 1817-11-09
Death: 1864-01-26
location: New York, NY
receiver: Frances Seward
Birth: 1805-09-24
Death: 1865-06-21
location: Albany, NY
transcription: csh
revision: csh 2016-11-21
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My dear Mrs Seward,
I haste to appologise
for my apparent rudeness in not joining
you at dinner yesterday. I was so much oc
-cupied that I did not complete my business
till 4 o clock. I derive some consolation
from the remembrance that I had no dinner
at all unless the task of picking the skeleton of
a cold turkey at Hall's
ded may be deemed a dinner. I cannot so cursed
on it & I trust you will, as I do, find in my
privation a proper punishment for failing to fulfil
my engagement.
Very sincerely & respectfully Yours
James Brown
New York, Friday Mg
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My dear Mrs Seward,
I haste to appologise
for my apparent rudeness in not joining
you at dinner yesterday. I was so much oc
-cupied that I did not complete my business
till 4 o clock. I derive some consolation
from the remembrance that I had no dinner
at all unless the task of picking the skeleton of
a cold turkey at Hall's
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which the Governor
Birth: 1801-05-16 Death: 1872-10-10
had denu-ded may be deemed a dinner. I cannot so cursed
on it & I trust you will, as I do, find in my
privation a proper punishment for failing to fulfil
my engagement.
Very sincerely & respectfully Yours
James Brown
New York, Friday Mg