Letter from Frances Miller Seward to Lazette Miller Worden, December 5, 1861
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Letter from Frances Miller Seward to Lazette Miller Worden, December 5,
1861
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Date:1861-12-05
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Letter from Frances Miller Seward to Lazette Miller Worden, December 5, 1861
action: sent
sender: Frances Seward
Birth: 1805-09-24
Death: 1865-06-21
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receiver: Lazette Worden
Birth: 1803-11-01
Death: 1875-10-03
location: Auburn, NY
transcription: ael
revision: iwl 2021-01-28
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Thursday Dec 5t
My dear Sister
Fanny
Birth: 1844-12-09 Death: 1866-10-29
is not well this morning and I am up alone
She has a bad headache
which I hope may pass off
without further illness —
We think and talk of you
all very much – How is Clara's
Birth: 1827-12-03 Death: 1911-07-07
cold – did Jenny
Birth: 1839-11-18 Death: 1913-11-09
give hermore of the Hydrocynic Acid.
Dr Helmuth
Birth: 1801-09 Death: 1880-04-08
made
manyinquiries about your health.
Teusday the Miss Townsends
Birth: 1827
Death: 1914-03-02
Birth: 1818-11-02
Death: 1910-01-16
came to see me – it was
very cold and I am afraid
not prudent for Marion to
come out – She is still hoarse
though she looks better than
when I last saw her – I say
better – her face is fuller but
it seemed to me unnaturally so –
I shall try to see them when I
feel able to go there & the
weather is milder – I believe
it is somewhat this morning
though the gutters are frozen
A Mr Watts
Birth: 1805-10-10 Death: 1890-11-30Certainty: Probable
his wife
Birth: 1817 Death: 1888-02-01Certainty: Probable
and daughter
Birth: 1853-05-27 Death: 1923-06-08Certainty: Probable
came to see methe same day – I had just
parted with Dr Helmuth
and should not have seen them
had I been allowed a choice
though they were polite to call
I am not able to form
new acquaintances with any
hope of giving them any pleasure.
Such visits consume my
strength without doing any
good – The post brought me
your first letter Teusday
which we still enjoy – Yesterday
a letter from Anna
Birth: 1834-03-29 Death: 1919-05-02
– She
inquires of Frances
Birth: 1826-12-12 Death: 1909-08-24
is coming
–Henry
Birth: 1801-05-16 Death: 1872-10-10
wishes her to
inviteMiss Dunscomb for the Winter
I wrote to her that Frances talked
of coming in February – and
that I would on no account
invite Miss Dunscomb for
so long a visit – it would
become extremely tiresome –
Men who meet such company but
two or three times a day have little
conception of the draft upon a
womans time and patience which
is constantly in requisition for
such guests – Anna says Henry
tried to get away to meet us
Saturday but could not —
Friday morning – Just one
week since we parted with
all your dear faces at the rail
road – Fanny was quite ill
with headache & vomiting
yesterday – I think she read
studied and wrote too constantly
Wednesday – She is better this
morning – I am glad I am with
her – Madame Masse
Birth: 1828
is verykind & insisted upon ginger
tea & gruel – which we of
course did not approve —
Will you have read the message
and Simon Cameron
Birth: 1799-03-08 Death: 1889-06-26
’s report – I
believe Simon understands the
Northern sentiment better
than Abraham
Birth: 1809-02-12 Death: 1865-04-15
— The Professor
Birth: 1815
who “grows upon me” brought
me the New York Times yester-
day – it was refreshing to get
that after being confined to
Philadelphia papers a week
There is more conservative feeling
here on the subject of Slavery
than I thought – They seem
to me behind N. York –
The Professor and I have concluded
that the report of Simon is more
of a message than that of Abraham –
but this is entre nous –We are
the only English people in the
house all the others talk
French –