Letter from Frances Miller Seward to Lazette Miller Worden, December, 1861
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Letter from Frances Miller Seward to Lazette Miller Worden, December,
1861
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Repository:Rare Books and Special Collections
Date:1861-12
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Letter from Frances Miller Seward to Lazette Miller Worden, December, 1861
action: sent
sender: Frances Seward
Birth: 1805-09-24
Death: 1865-06-21
location: Philadelphia, PA
receiver: Lazette Worden
Birth: 1803-11-01
Death: 1875-10-03
location: Auburn, NY
transcription: ael
revision: iwl 2021-01-29
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Philadelphia
Monday morning
My dear Sister
I am writing with
a very poor pen as you
see. – The morning
promises a good day &
I am going after breakfast
to attempt a walk – I
am suffering for fresh
air – Were I not so
far above the earth I would
go out before breakfast –
I miss my walk about
house, & the open windows
in the morning – I think
Fanny
Birth: 1844-12-09 Death: 1866-10-29
and I were botha little homesick
yesterday but we have
determined not to say
so or otherwise encour-
age
discontent – Madame Masse
Birth: 1828
is a very energetic person
she does every thing as
all good housekeepers
seem compelled to in this
land of Liberty – She says
she is glad she learned
housekeeping in New England.
The house is a single
city house of the smaller
size – A basement kitchen
2 small parlours on the 1st
floor with a very small
room back used for a dining
room – 3 bed rooms on the
2d floor – 2 of which are
used for a school room
the same number on the
3d floor – one of which is
ours & one the Professors
Birth: 1815
and again the same number
in the atic attic –
Quite room enough for
a family but insufficient
for a boarding house –
Last evening Mr Marvin
Birth: 1802-03-17 Death: 1877-03-26
came to see us and
the remainder of the
evening was given to Julius
Wood
Birth: 1805-09-04 Death: 1885-02-12
who is on
hisway either to Washington
or Columbus – He inquired
particularly about you –
He calls Fanny “Frank”
which is not pleasing
to either of us. I have not
seen him since the Chicago
convention – the action of
that body still makes
him uncomfortable – though
he consoles himself with the
belief that the wheels
of the Government would
stop without the presence
of the defeated candidates
Mr Masse is sick with a
carbuncle – and always
I fancy afflicted with
inertia – Madame is
the main spring of this
establishment – Their
children
Unknown
are in Italy
–with her mother
Unknown
– I
thinkit is cold this morning
but does not freeze here
yet – Wednesday – I did
not take up my letter
yesterday for after my walk
I was too ill – I cannot
walk yet though Dr Helmuth
Birth: 1801-09 Death: 1880-04-08
insists that I will be better.
I went to see him yesterday
and will write to Jenny
Birth: 1839-11-18 Death: 1913-11-09
about Charlie
Birth: 1859-01-03 Death: 1873-06-07
– Thisis written before breakfast
for the Post –
Love to all – We want to
see you & Trippy
Birth: 1851-06-13 Death: 1862
– Sister –It is very cold for the soldiers this
[right Margin] morning