Letter from Frederick William Seward to Lazette Miller Worden, July 10, 1842

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Letter from Frederick William Seward to Lazette Miller Worden, July 10, 1842
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Repository:Rare Books and Special Collections

Date:1842-07-10

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Letter from Frederick William Seward to Lazette Miller Worden, July 10, 1842

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sender: Frederick Seward
Birth: 1830-07-08  Death: 1915-04-25

location: Auburn, NY

receiver: Lazette Worden
Birth: 1803-11-01  Death: 1875-10-03

location: Canandaigua, NY

transcription: mhb 

revision: tap 2017-10-23

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Auburn July 10th 1842
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Editorial Note

This letter was originally written as part of 18420710FMS_LMW.

My Dear Aunt,
As you expressed a wish in your last
letter that I would tell you about the fourth of
July I will do so in this letter. On Saturday evening
the fire-companies came out with torches and marched
about the village. They looked very handsome each
man having two torches. On Monday morning th[ e ]
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bells rang as if for fire & the engine-companies ran about
pretending that there was one which however they very well
knew there was not. They had agreed to do this for the
purpose I suppose of waking up the people that they might
hear a cannon fired which by the sound seemed to be
rather larger than the one at Canandaigua. When they found
there was no fire they marched about with the Auburn-Guards.
The men
Unknown
in one of the engine-companies that came past here looked very
sleepy and as if they did not see any joke in running around the village
in search of an imaginary fire. I amused myself during the day by
firing fire crackers which instead of lying still and blow up as re-
spectable fire crackers should do, flew with great violence to the
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distance of two or three rods to the great amusement of Willy
Birth: 1839-06-18 Death: 1920-04-29
.
The procession formed at ten o’clock and marched on to Fort Hill
Willy has a box of wooden soldiers and after he had seen the procession
he informed me that when they grew big they would march like
those he had seen. In the evening I went to an exhibition of fireworks
at the Garden with Mr McClallen
Birth: 1791-09-07 Death: 1860-11-16
& after that, to the boys bonfire.
I did not have my fire-works until Friday evening.
Your affectionate nephew
F.W.Seward