Goshen, August 2^d 1854
Wednesday.
My dear Father,
We returned from Bethlehem
to my uncle Polidores’ last night. This
morning found your letter of Sunday at
the Post Office. Gus came on with Louisa
in the afternoon.
My mother is better, I think
than when she started. On Saturday she
rode forty two miles, and each day has
felt well enough to walk up & down
some of the hills. She had one severe attack
of neuralgia, at Stroudsburg – and was
sick nearly all day. But she was better
yesterday than any day since she set
out, and except being tired, is as
well to day. She thinks she will stay here
until next Monday, and then set out for
Auburn with Gus, taking Fanny and Louisa
with her. She will go by the railroad
to Narrowsburg – stop over a night –
then to Owego – stop over another – and
then to Ithaca, where she will write
Willie to meet her with a carriage
to take her home. She had some hopes

that you might come up this way, but as
you have so many to take care of on the
road, it will perhaps be impossible.
Affectionately your son
Frederick W. Seward