Letter from William Henry Seward to Augustus Henry Seward, December 11, 1844

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Letter from William Henry Seward to Augustus Henry Seward, December 11, 1844
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Date:1844-12-11

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Letter from William Henry Seward to Augustus Henry Seward, December 11, 1844

action: sent

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

location: Auburn, NY

receiver: Augustus Seward
Birth: 1826-10-01  Death: 1876-09-11

location: West Point, NY

transcription: bpt 

revision: crb 2018-07-10

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Auburn December 11th 1844.
My Dear Son
Your mother’s
Birth: 1805-09-24 Death: 1865-06-21
illness renders it necessary that I
be your correspondent for the present. We were all made
happy on Monday the 9th by the advent of a little stranger
your sister
Birth: 1844-12-09 Death: 1866-10-29
. Your mother is quite comfortable and has no
alarming symptoms, the babe seems healthy and we hope
that before long the health of the mother will be quite restored.
We have not yet bestowed a name on the child but she
will probably bear the name of her from whom she derives
her being.
Your Aunt
Birth: 1803-11-01 Death: 1875-10-03
is with us for a season. Grand Pa
Birth: 1772-04-11 Death: 1851-11-13
and the
boys
x Birth: 1839-06-18  Death: 1920-04-29  Birth: 1830-07-08  Death: 1915-04-25 
are very well. Ma thinks it hard that you have
not written to her in three long weeks. We are all quite
happy that you have learned almost how to avoid those
ugly demerit marks.
Your Grand Mother
Birth: 1769-11-27 Death: 1844-12-11
at Florida was very low at the date
of my last letters from there. I have scarcely a hope that
she survives. I have visited her twice this autumn and am
very unhappy that I cannot return there again.
Clarences
Birth: 1828-10-07 Death: 1897-07-24
vacation will convene in about a
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week. We hear that he is quite respectable in his studies.
The sad result of the Election seems not unlikely to be followed
by difficulties with Mexico which may excite hopes of distinction
among the officers of the Army, doomed as they generally are to lives
of inaction-
Adieu affectionately
Your father
William H Seward
Augustus H Seward
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Augustus H Seward,
United States Military
Academy
West Point,
N York
AUBURN N.Y.
DEC 11
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