Letter from Frances Miller Seward to Augustus Henry Seward, August 22, 1853

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Letter from Frances Miller Seward to Augustus Henry Seward, August 22, 1853
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Repository:Rare Books and Special Collections

Date:1853-08-22

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Letter from Frances Miller Seward to Augustus Henry Seward, August 22, 1853

action: sent

sender: Frances Seward
Birth: 1805-09-24  Death: 1865-06-21

location: Auburn, NY

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

location: Hampton, VA

transcription: rmg 

revision: crb 2019-02-27

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Auburn August 22d
My dear Son,
I was too unwell to
make the jaunt we
proposed – have concluded
to take a carriage
and drive as far
as I can comfortably
every day for a
week or two – We
set out tomorrow –
Aunty
Birth: 1803-11-01 Death: 1875-10-03
, Fred
Birth: 1830-07-08 Death: 1915-04-25
and Fanny
Birth: 1844-12-09 Death: 1866-10-29

go with me – We
go in a Southerly
direction intending
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to strike the Susquhannah
river at Owego
Fred will stay with
us a week when
your father
Birth: 1801-05-16 Death: 1872-10-10
may join
us – he goes to Troy
on business this morning –
Should you come North
before we return do
not come home until
you hear from me.
Aunt Clara
Birth: 1793-05-01 Death: 1862-09-05
has gone
to Romulus with Mrs
Blackmar
Birth: 1821 Death: 1870-03-04
–we expect
her home to day.
We have no point of
destination unless it
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be be the Moravian
settlement at Bethlehem
in Pennsylvania where
Aunt Cornelia
Birth: 1805 Death: 1839-01-04
once went
to school – you may
have seen Caroline's
Birth: 1834-07-25 Death: 1922-02-28

marriage in the papers
it took place at the time
appointed, in a Presbyterian
Church in N. York
Mr TxW
Birth: 1797-11-15 Death: 1882-11-22
& Mrs Weed
Birth: 1797 Death: 1858-07-03
& Harriet
Birth: 1819-02-06 Death: 1893-11-01

were present with some
other friends of Mr
Schoolcraft
Birth: 1804-09-22 Death: 1860-06-07
– no relatives
of either party were invited.
The singularity of this ar-
rangement has of course
attracted much attention
and elicited much
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observation – It would
have been much more
respectable had they gone
to the house of some of
her friends, even, if
they would not come
home – She is very
thoughtless and he an
old bachelor – which is
I suppose all the expla-
nation that can be given.
Mrs Charles Wood
Birth: 1819-08-28 Death: 1853-08-20

died Saturday leaving
an infant
Birth: 1853 Death: 1862
10 days old –
The hot weather which
has been extreme has given
place to cool –
Frances Chesebro
Birth: 1826-12-12 Death: 1909-08-24
was at
Sachem's Head the
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last adieu – I
believe Henry
Birth: 1822-02-03 Death: 1888-11-24
is to go for
her this week –
Fred came home Saturday
I was very sorry
to hear the death
of Col. Bliss
Birth: 1815-08-17 Death: 1853-08-05
– your
Father goes to Columbus
Ohio
the 10th of September –
May God preserve
you — Your
Mother
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Lieut. A. H. Seward
Coast Survey
Old Point Comfort
Virginia —
Unknown
William H Seward.