Letter from William Henry Seward to Frances Miller Seward, November 29, 1859
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Letter from William Henry Seward to Frances Miller Seward, November 29,
1859
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Institution:University of Rochester
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Date:1859-11-29
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Letter from William Henry Seward to Frances Miller Seward, November 29, 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
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revision: amr 2021-01-30
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Editorial Note
The Italian Opera Troup came up from Amsterdam and
gave us an entertainment at the theater last night. The
performance seemed a sad failure to we who had ^are^ recently to part
from Paris. The House and Audience very primeval. Albany
or even Rochester or Buffalo would appear far more metro-
politan. But the young diplomats who make up the
complement of my acquaintance have said that the Count
Unknown
was not yet arrived, and the fashionable people are still in
the provinces. Well the Dutch are such industrious and
respectable people, quite as good for being plain in
their ways, I doubt not.
After the Opera I visited the Hopes
Birth: 1837
Death: 1909
Birth: 1834-04-12
Death: 1909-12-17
are attaches here as they were at Washington. I need
not say that here recollections of America were to the dignity
of a distinct merit and claim to commendation.