Letter from Frances Miller Seward to William Henry Seward Jr., August 29, 1858
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Letter from Frances Miller Seward to William Henry Seward Jr., August 29, 1858
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Date:1858-08-29
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Letter from Frances Miller Seward to William Henry Seward Jr., August 29, 1858
action: sent
sender: Frances Seward
Birth: 1805-09-24
Death: 1865-06-21
location: Auburn, NY
receiver: William Seward
Birth: 1839-06-18
Death: 1920-04-29
location: Albany, NY
transcription: msf
revision: agw 2020-11-25
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Auburn August 29th
h
Unknown
Mrs Seward 1858My dear Son
I am sorry to
say that I have neglec-
-ted to have your dressing
gown washed – it shall
be done tomorrow and
sent immediately –
John
Birth: 1827
forgot until yes--terday to remind me of
it – The truth is that
illumination made us
so much work that
it took more than
a week to restore
[top Margin]
the tops had been broken from 6 or
8 hills but no appearance of any
the house to order –
Clarence
Birth: 1828-10-07 Death: 1897-07-24
and Caroline
Birth: 1828-05-22 Death: 1906-12-09
came yesterday –
Clarence is to go to
N. York tomorrow –
Augustus
Birth: 1826-10-01 Death: 1876-09-11
writes thathe will come and
see us next month –
I would like to know
how you like your
new boarding house
I have not seen Mrs
Watson
Birth: 1812-03-30 Death: 1893-11-13
or
Jenny
Birth: 1839-11-18 Death: 1913-11-09
sinceI wrote before
though I hear that
[right Margin]
cow tracks – or other injuries to the corn
Jenny is preparing
to go with Miss
Beardsley
Birth: 1842 Death: 1908-05-10Certainty: Probable
to Philadelphia
Aunty
Birth: 1803-11-01 Death: 1875-10-03
had quite anexciting time with the
old Irishman
Unknown
who hascomplained so much
of our horse & cows
eating his corn — I do
not think either of them
had ever been in the
field but wherever they
a put on that side
of the house he pretend
they molest him, so
he shut up the 2
cows Thursday night
[right Margin] good bye with
Mothers blessing
and turned the horse into
Jim's
Unknown
garden – He refused togive up the cows unless
your father
Birth: 1801-05-16 Death: 1872-10-10
would pay him$10 damages – Aunty sent
for the Marshall
Unknown
, in themean time Bill Harris
Birth: 1832
came along & threatened to
tear down his shed if
he did not bring out the
cows – As Bill pulled off
one board to show that he
was in earnest, the old
man brought out the cows
revenging himself by all
the abusive language he
could think of – I went to
see the corn field the
next day & found that