Letter from William Henry Seward to Clarence Armstrong Seward, December 17, 1853

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Letter from William Henry Seward to Clarence Armstrong Seward, December 17, 1853
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Distributor:Seward Family Digital Archive

Institution:University of Rochester

Repository:Rare Books and Special Collections

Date:1853-12-17

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Letter from William Henry Seward to Clarence Armstrong Seward, December 17, 1853

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

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receiver: Clarence Seward
Birth: 1828-10-07  Death: 1897-07-24

location: Auburn, NY

transcription: nwh 

revision: crb 2019-07-01

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Editorial Note

This included a letter from Clarence Armstrong Seward to William Henry Seward dated December 1853.
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Editorial Note

This is written in an unknown hand.
Washington Dec. 17th 1853.
My Dear Clarence
I send three contracts for City lots
which I have executed. Please have copies of them made
so that duplicates may be held by the parties. Jacob M.
Brown
Birth: 1805-04-19 Death: 1886-01-20
my agent will call upon you with the contracting par-
ties. Deliver one sett to him, and send the other sett executed
by the other parties to me. I can sign them here and retain
them. Shew this letter to Mr Brown, and explain to
him that as the several contracting parties pay nothing
down and I do not know their responsibility that I
think it safe and prudent that their duplicates should
remain in your hands until he should have some security that the
contracting parties are going on to build the houses unless their
responsibility is unquestionable. Mr Brown will exercise his own
discretion about this, and whenever he shall write to me that he has
delivered up the articles being duly satisfied on the point I have
mentioned I will remit the amount of his agency fees to him.
Mr Brown will also understand that I approve of what he reports
that he has done about fencing and the bridges. For his satisfaction
you may give this letter to him after taking a copy, which you
will return to me with the duplicate contracts.
Affectionately your uncle
William H. Seward.
Clarence A. Seward Esq