Letter from Frances Adeline Seward to Frances Miller Seward, May 1855
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Letter from Frances Adeline Seward to Frances Miller Seward, May 1855
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Institution:University of Rochester
Repository:Rare Books and Special Collections
Date:1855-05
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Letter from Frances Adeline Seward to Frances Miller Seward, May 1855
action: sent
sender: Frances Seward
Birth: 1844-12-09
Death: 1866-10-29
location: Albany, NY
receiver: Frances Seward
Birth: 1805-09-24
Death: 1865-06-21
location: Auburn, NY
transcription: meb
revision: jxw 2021-08-27
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Dear Mother
I am
seated in Anna’s
Birth: 1834-03-29 Death: 1919-05-02
room
writing and eat steam
molases candy, which you
know is so good Anna
does told the cook to o
make some of my medicine
candy but does not yet
know if she has. I went
to see Esther
Unknown
last
night with Mary
Van Wie
Birth: 1824 Death: 1899
who came to see
me and return a
call I had made so
I have seen her mother
Birth: 1795 Death: 1878
twice, I forgot to ask
the pin price, but
cannot get a ring
with a brass plate
and must pay a
dollar for my ring
and the same for
Eliza’s. Molly
Birth: 1848-09-07 Death: 1910
and I
slept in another room
(J) (Johns)
Birth: 1841-12-14 Death: 1896-10-15
last night.
I was asleep in but
15 minutes and.
Anna has bought me my
pink dress some pink-and-
white trimming buttons
basque buttons silk dress
trimmings a stiff white
petticoat and you a
drab stiff skirt.
Mrs Wharton
Birth: 1812-10-29 Death: 1889-10-09
is ^
a
^ very
kind. I said my prayers
night and morning, and
rely on me that I will
read my testament when
I go dov down to our
room which will be soon.
write often in my
stay.
Your little
Fanny,
PS you need not send
me any medicine.
Fanny
h
Hand Shift
Birth: 1805-09-24 Death: 1865-06-21Frances Seward
May
1855 —