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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Distributor:Seward Family Digital Archive

Institution:University of Rochester

Repository:Rare Books and Special Collections

Date:1859-11-29

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Letter from William Henry Seward to Frances Miller Seward, November 29, 1859

action: sent

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: amr 2021-01-30

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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.
Tuesday November 29th 1859. The Hague.
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
x Birth: 1837  Death: 1909  Birth: 1834-04-12  Death: 1909-12-17 
, who
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.