Letter from Frances Miller Seward to Frederick William Seward, July 10, 1864
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Letter from Frances Miller Seward to Frederick William Seward, July 10, 1864
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Institution:University of Rochester
Repository:Rare Books and Special Collections
Date:1864-07-10
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Letter from Frances Miller Seward to Frederick William Seward, July 10, 1864
action: sent
sender: Frances Seward
Birth: 1805-09-24
Death: 1865-06-21
location: Unknown
receiver: Frederick Seward
Birth: 1830-07-08
Death: 1915-04-25
location: Washington D.C., US
transcription: meb
revision: tap 2017-11-22
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perative ought not to go —
Ask your Father
not best for me to go to
Baltimore or Washington &
telegraph his answer —
I am well and can go —
as well as not — Aunty
continues better —
We have nothing from
you later than the
2nd — May God preserve
you all
Mother
Send the enclosed
to Will — if I address
it as usual it may
go to City Point —
Sunday July 10th
My Dear Son
Jenny
Will
while on the Chesapeake on
his way we think to Bal-
-timore — the post mark
is blurred so that we cannot
read it — He was with
one Div. of the 6th Corps —
going I presume to assist in
repelling the invasion — He
left the Hospital to go
with his Regt. having
been confined some days with
illness — Jenny wishes to go
to him immediately she
is not in a situation to travel
& unless the case is very im-
Page
2My Dear Son
Jenny
Birth: 1839-11-18 Death: 1913-11-09
has a letter fromWill
Birth: 1839-06-18 Death: 1920-04-29
this morning writtenwhile on the Chesapeake on
his way we think to Bal-
-timore — the post mark
is blurred so that we cannot
read it — He was with
one Div. of the 6th Corps —
going I presume to assist in
repelling the invasion — He
left the Hospital to go
with his Regt. having
been confined some days with
illness — Jenny wishes to go
to him immediately she
is not in a situation to travel
& unless the case is very im-
perative ought not to go —
Ask your Father
Birth: 1801-05-16 Death: 1872-10-10
if it
isnot best for me to go to
Baltimore or Washington &
telegraph his answer —
I am well and can go —
as well as not — Aunty
Birth: 1803-11-01 Death: 1875-10-03
continues better —
We have nothing from
you later than the
2nd — May God preserve
you all
Mother
Send the enclosed
to Will — if I address
it as usual it may
go to City Point —