Letter from William Henry Seward to Frances Adeline Seward, May 29, 1859
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Letter from William Henry Seward to Frances Adeline Seward, May 29,
1859
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Institution:University of Rochester
Repository:Rare Books and Special Collections
Date:1859-05-29
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Letter from William Henry Seward to Frances Adeline Seward, May 29, 1859
action: sent
sender: William Seward
Birth: 1801-05-16
Death: 1872-10-10
location: London, England, UK
receiver: Frances Seward
Birth: 1844-12-09
Death: 1866-10-29
location: Auburn, NY
transcription: msf
revision: agw 2020-11-30
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May 29 th
I dined yesterday in a party in which
a great grandson
Unknown
of General La Fayette
Birth: 1757-09-06 Death: 1834-05-20
and his family
Unknown
were guests, as well
as two a Patriot Italian family
Unknown
It gratified me exceedingly to find that
the memory of our cou La Fayettes
relations to our country is highly
cherished by his descendants. I need
not tell you that all of our party
were Republicans of the American school
At ten I went to a party given
by Lady Palmerston
Birth: 1787-04-21 Death: 1869-09-11
. It was large
and brilliant. At first it confounded
me not a little to be presented to
persons ladies and gentlemen bearing
much imposing titles, for all orders
of society were represented there. But by
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degrees I found myself in a circle not
widely differing from a Ministers reception
at Washington. I must not try to
recal the names of the many persons
of all classes to whom I was presented
Suffice it that two or three of the
most spirited attended me to my
lodgings at half past 12.
To day I have attended
church, at All Saints, a new
edifice, built by a Purveyite Congre-
gation at vast expense in the style
of the Middle Ages, and in which
the service is conducted in the
manner adopted by th at e High Church
Party. It is certainly a transition from
the simplicity of the Reformers of Geneva
Elizabeth’s time, but the Purveyites expect to
establish it throughout the world.