Letter from Frances Miller Seward to Frederick William Seward, February 18, 1861
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Letter from Frances Miller Seward to Frederick William Seward, February 18,
1861
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Institution:University of Rochester
Repository:Rare Books and Special Collections
Date:1861-02-18
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Letter from Frances Miller Seward to Frederick William Seward, February 18, 1861
action: sent
sender: Frances Seward
Birth: 1805-09-24
Death: 1865-06-21
location: Auburn, NY
receiver: Frederick Seward
Birth: 1830-07-08
Death: 1915-04-25
location: Washington D.C., US
transcription: lbk
revision: iwl 2021-01-24
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Auburn Jan
Feb 18th
My dear Son
I am constantly
hearing and receiving
applications for office I
will make a memorandum
of applicants who have
been before mentioned
you will know how to
dispose of them – Many
have applied to your father
Birth: 1801-05-16 Death: 1872-10-10
who wish me to remind
him –
B.F Hall
Birth: 1814-07-23 Death: 1891-09-06
Consul Generalof British America
Mr Scharff
Birth: 1834-02-26 Death: 1868-07-13
Frances Sewards
Birth: 1836-02-16 Death: 1910-02-06
husband – Assistant District
Attorney for the U. States
this is modest for a Democrat –
William Loughborough
Birth: 1827-08-23 Death: 1907-10-09
ofRochester – Assistant
Examiner of Patents
Henry Lester
Birth: 1843 Death: 1923
Son in Lawof Stephen Austin
Birth: 1815 Death: 1865-07-24
forany place in the State
department!
These are all I think
of now –
Please burn this
letter after making
a memorandum –
Mother –
In addition Captain
Benton
Birth: 1820-09-15 Death: 1881-08-23
of West
Point
wants the a cop[ y ]
Supplied
report of the Military
Academy Commission
Barton Loughborough
Birth: 1821-12-03 Death: 1905-12-24
wishesyou to ascertain whether
his son
Birth: 1845
can be admittedto any school attached
to the Navy where he
can work at the same
time – I am sorry some
one has told him there is such
a school as I dont believe
it – Naval & Industrial
is the name –
For Fred