Letter from Frances Adeline Seward to William Henry Seward, February 6, 1861

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Letter from Frances Adeline Seward to William Henry Seward, February 6, 1861
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Distributor:Seward Family Digital Archive

Institution:University of Rochester

Repository:Rare Books and Special Collections

Date:1861-02-06

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Letter from Frances Adeline Seward to William Henry Seward, February 6, 1861

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sender: Frances Seward
Birth: 1844-12-09  Death: 1866-10-29

location: Auburn, NY

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

location: Washington D.C., US

transcription: lag 

revision: tap 2018-07-02

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Auburn. Wednsday — Feb 6th
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Editorial Note

The archivist marked the date of this letter as February 8th, but Wednesday was February 6, 1861.

My dear Father
I was very glad to
receive your letter — last night’s mail
brought another, and one from
Fred
Birth: 1830-07-08 Death: 1915-04-25
, saying that you still might
have a few days to come home — I
hope you may.
We have a beautiful bright morn-
ing & hope for a thaw, for until
there is one we shall be without
gas, as there is water frozen in
the street pipes, it seems very odd
to be using lamps and candles
as we have done since Saturday
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evening — the failure of gas is only
in this neighborhood.
After we came home from Al-
bany
I invited a few of my
friends to meet Miss Hosmer
Unknown
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Editorial Note

Either Clara Hosmer
Birth: 1846 Death: 1902-07-17
or Martha Matilda Hosmer Wright
Birth: 1841-05-09 Death: 1921-12-25
or Julia Hosmer Ives
Birth: 1837 Death: 1916-07-10

and another young lady
Unknown
, and
we had a dance — Jenny
Birth: 1839-11-18 Death: 1913-11-09
played
for us, Mother
Birth: 1805-09-24 Death: 1865-06-21
called off the figures
and Aunty
Birth: 1803-11-01 Death: 1875-10-03
danced a good deal —
Ellen Perry
Birth: 1844-09-14 Death: 1920-04-14
& I have each received
letters from Judge Goodrich
Birth: 1804-09-27 Death: 1885-04-19
contain-
ing some very poor photographs of
yourself the letters are very short
and funny — with very long adjectives.
Yesterday all Freds books were
unpacked, most of them were
put on the new shelves in the
bathroom — which looks quite
like a library —
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Kate’s
Birth: 1837 Death: 1878-04-08
husband has written for
her, & she is preparing to go back
to Alabama
All send love to yourself & Fred
Your affectionate little girl
Fanny 
P.S.
I seal this with my new ring.