Letter from Frances Alvah Worden Chesebro to Augustus Henry Seward, October 1, 1851
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Letter from Frances Alvah Worden Chesebro to Augustus Henry Seward, October 1,
1851
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Date:1851-10-01
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Letter from Frances Alvah Worden Chesebro to Augustus Henry Seward, October 1, 1851
action: sent
sender: Frances Chesebro
Birth: 1826-12-12
Death: 1909-08-24
location: Canandaigua, NY
receiver: Augustus Seward
Birth: 1826-10-01
Death: 1876-09-11
location: Pascagoula, MS
transcription: bpt
revision: crb 2019-02-15
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My dear Cousin
This is your 25th birthday and
though you are very far away from
us all yet I doubt not but that each
member of the family is like myself
thinking of you today. It seems but a
very little while since you Fred
children playing together now we ^are^ grown
and soon will be growing old – but
I hope when we are twenty five years older
if we should all live until then that
our affection for each other will be the
same as now, unaltered, and unchanged
whatever may come or wherever we may
be. You both have been as dear brothers
to me and as a sister I have endeared
to be to you both – and though we can
never be together as we have been still
the years that pass by can unite us
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us more closely in affection – and if we
do form new ties they must not sever
the old ones.
Fred you have heard has been
admitted to practice – he has not
yet determined upon his location – at
present he is attending grandpa
has been quite sick & is still very feeble
Ive not been to Auburn this Summer
but a week, there has been so much
company there that I did not want
to go. all the Orange County people have
been up –
I believe you have a Journal weekly
So you have all the news of the day
and Auburn news your Mother
but you have not heard of Mr Sam Blatch-
fords
Court – or District Judge – to be sure he
is not elected & may not be – but is
the next thing to it – were I a lawyer
it would not be satisfactory to me – to have
him a Judge – Mr Whittlesey
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of Rochester died last week – you
remember him – Mr Cooper
is also dead – and you all I suppose
are regretting the death of Genl Whiting
the papers eulogize him highly – was
he H Whiting’s
I want you to write home when
you can – though I know letters are
forever reaching you – but Id like to hear
from you – Your fiftieth birthday I hope
will find you out of the army and
nearer home – though in many respects
you probably enjoy yourself very much
but we all would be happier were
you somewhere nearer home.
Henry
This will go with your Mother’s letter
as I do not know your direction
Your affectionate Cousin
Frances
Canandaigua
October 1st 1851 –
My dear Cousin
This is your 25th birthday and
though you are very far away from
us all yet I doubt not but that each
member of the family is like myself
thinking of you today. It seems but a
very little while since you Fred
Birth: 1830-07-08 Death: 1915-04-25
and I werechildren playing together now we ^are^ grown
and soon will be growing old – but
I hope when we are twenty five years older
if we should all live until then that
our affection for each other will be the
same as now, unaltered, and unchanged
whatever may come or wherever we may
be. You both have been as dear brothers
to me and as a sister I have endeared
to be to you both – and though we can
never be together as we have been still
the years that pass by can unite us
us more closely in affection – and if we
do form new ties they must not sever
the old ones.
Fred you have heard has been
admitted to practice – he has not
yet determined upon his location – at
present he is attending grandpa
Birth: 1772-04-11 Death: 1851-11-13
whohas been quite sick & is still very feeble
Ive not been to Auburn this Summer
but a week, there has been so much
company there that I did not want
to go. all the Orange County people have
been up –
I believe you have a Journal weekly
So you have all the news of the day
and Auburn news your Mother
Birth: 1805-09-24 Death: 1865-06-21
writes –but you have not heard of Mr Sam Blatch-
fords
Birth: 1820-03-09 Death: 1893-07-07
nomination for Judge of SupremeCourt – or District Judge – to be sure he
is not elected & may not be – but is
the next thing to it – were I a lawyer
it would not be satisfactory to me – to have
him a Judge – Mr Whittlesey
Birth: 1799-06-12 Death: 1851-09-19
of Rochester died last week – you
remember him – Mr Cooper
Birth: 1789-09-15 Death: 1851-09-14
the novelistis also dead – and you all I suppose
are regretting the death of Genl Whiting
Birth: 1788-11-28 Death: 1851-09-16
the papers eulogize him highly – was
he H Whiting’s
Birth: 1824-03-22 Death: 1865-03-10
(of your class) fatherI want you to write home when
you can – though I know letters are
forever reaching you – but Id like to hear
from you – Your fiftieth birthday I hope
will find you out of the army and
nearer home – though in many respects
you probably enjoy yourself very much
but we all would be happier were
you somewhere nearer home.
Henry
Birth: 1822-02-03 Death: 1888-11-24
desires his
kind remembrance to youThis will go with your Mother’s letter
as I do not know your direction
Your affectionate Cousin
Frances
Canandaigua
October 1st 1851 –