Letter from William Henry Seward to Frances Adeline Seward, June 3, 1859
xml:
Letter from William Henry Seward to Frances Adeline Seward, June 3,
1859
transcriber
Transcriber:spp:csh
student editorTranscriber:spp:rmg
Distributor:Seward Family Digital Archive
Institution:University of Rochester
Repository:Rare Books and Special Collections
Date:1859-06-03
In the context of this project, private URIs with the prefix "psn"
point to person elements in the project's persons.xml authority
file.
In the context of this project, private URIs with the prefix "pla"
point to place elements in the project's places.xml authority file.
In the context of this project, private URIs with the prefix "psn"
point to person elements in the project's staff.xml authority file.
In the context of this project, private URIs with the prefix "psn"
point to person elements in the project's bibl.xml authority file.
verical-align: super; font-size: 12px;
text-decoration: underline;
text-decoration: line-through;
color: red;
Letter from William Henry Seward to Frances Adeline Seward, June 3, 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: csh
revision: agw 2020-12-02
<>
Page 1
3
My dear Fanny London June 3, 1859
To day I had Appleton Blatchford
Birth: 1845-09-09 Death: 1905-10-22
and Willie Napier
Birth: 1846-09-22 Death: 1913-12-06
at breakfast. They are two
very gentle nice lads – They invited you here to see the
sights for which they open their eyes so widely.
I lunched at Grosvenor House, the
city residence of the Marquis of Westminster
Birth: 1795-01-27 Death: 1869-10-31
– He has been among the Kindest of my friends,
here – the party only Lady W
Birth: 1797-11-08 Death: 1891-11-11
, her
daughter
Birth: 1840-07-07 Death: 1923-03-24
Lady Napier
Birth: 1823-12-20 Death: 1911-08-24
,
Lord N
Birth: 1819-09-19 Death: 1898-12-19
and myself – We spent an hour in the picture gallery, It con-
tains hundreds of pictures, and many fine
statues, Not an picture without historical in-
terest and all originals by masters the
most renowed, Titian, Velazque
Birth: 1599-06-06 Death: 1660-08-06
,
Caracci
Birth: 1560-11-03 Death: 1609-07-15
,
Murillo
Birth: 1617-12 Death: 1682-04-03
,
Claude
Birth: 1604 Death: 1682-11-23
,
Reynolds
Birth: 1723-07-16 Death: 1792-02-23
,
West
Birth: 1738-10-10 Death: 1820-03-10
, and so on indefinitely Our visit was made most agreeable and was
only an anticipation of a great dinner a week
hence –
I dined with a large party gathered
for me at Lansdowne House, given by that
most venerable and estimable person the
Marquis of Lansdowne
Birth: 1780-07-02 Death: 1863-01-31
– His daughter
Birth: 1819-05-16 Death: 1895-06-26
the 4
Countess of Shelburne presided – I cannot recal
the names of the whole party. Among them Lord
Macaulay
Birth: 1800-10-25 Death: 1859-12-28
,
Lady Norton
Birth: 1808-03-22 Death: 1877-06-15
, the Napiers, Lord Macauley is a heavy moulded broad
dogmatical Scotchman. I respected him much
and had a little encounter of wits with him
Lady Norton has lost her beauty, and appeared
less attractive than I expected – The party
was a very agreeable one –
At night I saw for the first time
a London rout, A grand ball given by
the Countess of Derby
Birth: 1805-03-17 Death: 1876-04-26
, wife of the Prime Minister
Birth: 1799-03-29 Death: 1869-10-23
of Great Britain – Princes
Birth: 1844-08-06
Death: 1900-07-31
Birth: 1841-11-09
Death: 1910-05-06
Birth: 1848-03-18
Death: 1939-12-03
Birth: 1846-05-25
Death: 1923-06-09
Birth: 1841-04-25
Death: 1878-12-14
of the and Dukes and Duchesses of the
Royal family – Indian Princes
Unknown Birth: 1838-09-06 Death: 1893-10-22
the Diplomatic corps. It was a thorough
jam, beating the Napiers ball, I conversed
with Royalties and Nobles, ad infinitum
It was two o,clock when I came home –
and here is the brief and hurried journal of
it – Tomorrow – will bring new labors of the
same sort