Letter from William Henry Seward to Frances Miller Seward, September 14, 1859

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Letter from William Henry Seward to Frances Miller Seward, September 14, 1859
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Distributor:Seward Family Digital Archive

Institution:University of Rochester

Repository:Rare Books and Special Collections

Date:1859-09-14

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Letter from William Henry Seward to Frances Miller Seward, September 14, 1859

action: sent

sender: William Seward
Birth: 1801-05-16  Death: 1872-10-10

location: Alexandria, Egypt

receiver: Frances Seward
Birth: 1805-09-24  Death: 1865-06-21

location: Auburn, NY

transcription: csh 

revision:  2020-12-20

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Editorial Note

William Henry Seward’s series of travel letters in 1859 are organized and listed by the date of each entry.
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Alexandria Wednesday
September 14th, 1859
I embark this evening my dearest Frances
from this port in a vessel that I have
chartered to go to Jaffa – my courier
Smith
Unknown
is with me, and an English
Assistant Surgeon
Unknown
in the British Indian
Army. We go (over land of course) from
Jaffa to Jerusalem
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and thence back
to Jaffa expecting to take the
French Steamer from that port to
Constantinople on the 29 th of Sep-
tember now
Your own Henry