Letter from William Henry Seward to Frances Adeline Seward, December 4, 1859
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Letter from William Henry Seward to Frances Adeline Seward, December 4,
1859
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Date:1859-12-04
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Letter from William Henry Seward to Frances Adeline Seward, December 4, 1859
action: sent
sender: William Seward
Birth: 1801-05-16
Death: 1872-10-10
location: Brussels, Belgium
receiver: Frances Seward
Birth: 1844-12-09
Death: 1866-10-29
location: Auburn, NY
transcription: vxa
revision: amr 2021-01-30
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Editorial Note
Dec 4, 1859.
I took leave of the Napiers
Birth: 1848-11-13
Death: 1938-03-09 Certainty: Probable
Birth: 1823-12-20
Death: 1911-08-24 Certainty: Probable
Birth: 1819-09-19
Death: 1898-12-19 Certainty: Probable
Friday night, after a visit of ten days which had
sufficed apparently to leave all the differences
of country age position every thing. I carry with
me many expressions and tokens of affection, since
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I doubt not on their side as I am sure my
good feeling towards them.
Holland a long way out
from the Sea seeing all afloat, upon the
tide. It looked not unlike Egypt in the
season of the full Nile. The weather however
is getting very cold – and the harbinger must
soon give up its rich green color and its
luxuriant – Through Delft & Rotterdam
to the sea, ^Moon^ up the river through Dordrecht to
Mondyck
Unknown
, and from Mondyck through
Roosen- daal ^ and Antwerp ^ all in ten hours, here I am again
at Brussels. I found the American Minister
Birth: 1809-07-04 Death: 1886-12-23
and his family
Unknown Birth: 1826-09-24 Death: 1880-09
me. They had are of Alabama and excellent
people of the more moderate party in the South.
I breakfast with them this morning.