Letter from Frances Miller Seward to Augustus Henry Seward, July 28, 1858
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Letter from Frances Miller Seward to Augustus Henry Seward, July 28,
1858
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Repository:Rare Books and Special Collections
Date:1858-07-28
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Letter from Frances Miller Seward to Augustus Henry Seward, July 28, 1858
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: Saugerties, NY
transcription: amr
revision: amc 2020-12-24
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Auburn July 28
My dear Son,
I should have sent
this letter to Tivoli had
I not received yours yesterday
I am glad you went to see
Fred
Birth: 1830-07-08 Death: 1915-04-25
— Will
Birth: 1839-06-18 Death: 1920-04-29
was disappointed that he missed you —
Fred says you may come
home next month — I
hope you will — It is the
last month of summer —
we are now enjoying fine
cool weather, at least
mornings and evenings —
Your Father
Birth: 1801-05-16 Death: 1872-10-10
& Miss Duns- -comb were to have gone to
Niagara last Saturday
but Miss D – received word
from home that her sister
Unknown
was ill with small-pox
and her parents
Birth: 1804-02-23
Death: 1891-12-16
Birth: 1817-12-10
Death: 1892-01-01
her to remain with us
for the present. She talks
of visiting some friends
Unknown
at Staten Island & going
home by the way of Boston
but awaits further news
from home — She and
Anna
Birth: 1834-03-29 Death: 1919-05-02
accompanied by your father went last
Monday to attend a party
at Frances Chesebros
Birth: 1826-12-12 Death: 1909-08-24
which was quite agreeable to all
I believe — Aunty
Birth: 1803-11-01 Death: 1875-10-03
went yesterday to Canandaigua
to make a visit of a few
days — Trip
Birth: 1851-06-13 Death: 1862
stays with us – She of course closed
her house — Father has
been much engaged for three
days past with the Miller
Street road — has a number
of men at work grading it —
The lots on that Street
are all sold now –
Aunt Clara
Birth: 1793-05-01 Death: 1862-09-05
received a letter from Lazette Blackmar
Birth: 1821 Death: 1870-03-04
this week saying Harry
Miller
Unknown
died at the house of his brother Leonard
Birth: 1820 Death: 1903-05-18
the day before she wrote —
Thomas Miller
Birth: 1817-07-09 Death: 1864-07-23
has been with us since Saturday —
To day he goes to the
Commencement at Union
College – We hear nothing
further from the Napiers
Birth: 1819-09-19
Death: 1898-12-19
Birth: 1823-12-20
Death: 1911-08-24
they were to have been
here about this time —
Kate
Birth: 1837 Death: 1878-04-08
has gone to Philadelphia
to wait until the house at
Washington is ready to occupy
when she is to return and
move the furniture — Mr
Fletcher
Birth: 1814-03-24 Death: 1874-04-15
keeps her informed of the progress of the
workmen
Unknown
– Anna has sent to Mr Blunt
Unknown
the volumes of the Pacific Rail Road
which he wished — I hope
they will go safely —
Fanny's
Birth: 1844-12-09 Death: 1866-10-29
school is closed for the present — her French lessons
continue — she sends love
God bless you
Mother
[top Margin] I send with this an Army
Report I think from Washington
Lieut. A.H. Seward
Assist. Coast Survey
Saugerties
N. York
h
Unknown
William H Seward FREE
AUBURN, N.Y.
JUL 28