Letter from William Seward Webb to Frances Adeline Seward, April 23, 1863
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Letter from William Seward Webb to Frances Adeline Seward, April 23, 1863
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Repository:Rare Books and Special Collections
Date:1863-04-23
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Letter from William Seward Webb to Frances Adeline Seward, April 23, 1863
action: sent
sender: William Webb
Birth: 1851-01-31
Death: 1926-10-29
location:
receiver: Frances Seward
Birth: 1844-12-09
Death: 1866-10-29
location: Washington D.C., US
transcription: keh
revision: srr 2021-07-19
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Petropolis April 23, 1863
Dear Fanny
It is a very long
time since I have seen
you, but I still remember
the ples-ant times we had
at Auburn and the nice
times we had going about
Niagara. We have got in
the parlor the picture of
you your Father
Birth: 1835-01-09 Death: 1926
and
aus at Niagara.
How is your Brother
Birth: 1839-06-18 Death: 1920-04-29
I hear that he has got a little
baby
Birth: 1862-09-11 Death: 1921-10-05
and it is a little girl
you must ask him if he remem-
bers the time when we drove
about Auburn in the wagon
with that bay horse.
How is that calf, that I saw
when I was there I suppose
that it is a big cow by
this time
Walter
Birth: 1852-05-06 Death: 1900-06-18
has got his can-
oe that Mr Wilkinson
Birth: 1819-01-22 Death: 1894-02-04
gave
hime it hangs up in the
parlor under one of the
picture's and tell your Father
that I have got the Indian
that he gave me
I suppose Mother
Birth: 1826-01-02 Death: 1890-01-16
has told you that we have
got four parquites from
Bueno Aryres Louis
Birth: 1856-04-24 Death: 1928-12-24
had
one but it died I intend
to bring mine home with me
and I intend to Bring
you one (I would have
sent you one before but I
was afraid that they would
not take good care of it
There is also one big Parrot
that talks and Mother
has got one little paroquite
smaller than the Buenos
Ayres ones Mr Northe
Birth: 1734-07-01 Death: 1917-11-17
the
English Atache who was
here gave it to here but
he has gone back to England
again. The big Parrot
calls all us boys by name
and says a great many
words in Portuguese.
Petropolis is a very nice
place and there are a great
many nice walks.
Each of us boys
have got a garden Walter
has got a fuschia bush in
his garden for it grows wild
in the forest I my self have
seen a fuschia tree
growing over the side of a stream
quite as large as a good
sized Willow tree.
Mother say’s that
I get on very well with my
Latin.
We live very lonely here
for all the Ministers have
gone down but us.
give my best whishes
to your Father and Mother
Birth: 1805-09-24 Death: 1865-06-21
remember me to your Aunt
Birth: 1803-11-01 Death: 1875-10-03
the Lady that had the
calf and the dog that
went traveling with us
yours Truly
William Seward Webb
Miss Fanny Seward
Hon William H Seward
Washington
W. Seward Webb D C
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June 1863ansd. – March/64.