Letter from William Henry Seward to Frances Miller Seward, November 28, 1859
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Letter from William Henry Seward to Frances Miller Seward, November 28, 1859
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Date:1859-11-28
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Letter from William Henry Seward to Frances Miller Seward, November 28, 1859
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sender: William Seward
Birth: 1801-05-16
Death: 1872-10-10
location: The Hague, Netherlands
receiver: Frances Seward
Birth: 1805-09-24
Death: 1865-06-21
location: Auburn, NY
transcription: amr
revision: zz 2021-02-20
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Editorial Note
Editorial Note
I had yesterday a quiet, homelike Sunday, attended Church ^service^ twice
in the little chapel of the British Mission, seeing quite plain
people, hearing very common sermons and most indifferent
music, dined with the Napiers
Birth: 1819-09-19
Death: 1898-12-19
Birth: 1823-12-20
Death: 1911-08-24
Mr Murphy
Birth: 1810-07-05 Death: 1882-12-01
the American minister.
To day I have visited the Royal Gallery of
Paintings. The collection is small but excellent. Almost
every picture is by a Dutch Artist, and as of invaluable
as the work of an unapproached Master. Paul Potters
Death: 1654-01-17
“Bull” is perhaps the best of the whole. The Strange to say
I have learned on this brief journey that by visiting the
galleries of Antwerp and the Hague, that the Dutch
painters excel in fidelity to nature, especially ani-
mal nature, and that the sentiment of filial duty
of parental affection, of tenderness to animals, gives
them a ^fine^ class of subjects which they quite monopolize
I go back to Paris on Saturday next,
stopping a day at Brussels. On the 13th I sail, from
Havre in the Arago. I shall keep this letter open
until the latest day. It will be the last you will
receive of me until I return to you, never, never again
I am sure to go abroad, so far or so long.