Letter from Frances Adeline Seward to William Henry Seward, July 20, 1866
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Date:1866-07-20
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Letter from Frances Adeline Seward to William Henry Seward, July 20, 1866
action: sent
sender: Frances Seward
Birth: 1844-12-09
Death: 1866-10-29
location: Auburn, NY
receiver: William Seward
Birth: 1801-05-16
Death: 1872-10-10
location: Washington D.C., US
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revision: zz 2021-05-27
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Auburn
Friday, 20th July 1866
My dearest Father,
I am sitting in the
library after breakfast and as
I write I can look up and see
through the window the
workmen
Unknown
engaged on the new
building. One with his hammer
is shaping a block of stone
another busied over the contents
of pail which he seems to be
scraping, a third filling the
chinks between large stones with
small ones. They are filling about
the frames of the bay window
in front of the little
library. On the foundation
wall close by the latter room
they have laid the brick – five
rows high. The garden just
now gives us pink spirea, candituft,
pansies, sweet peas and verbenas.
Ellen
Birth: 1844-09-14 Death: 1920-04-14
came to dinner yesterday
afterwards Will
Birth: 1839-06-18 Death: 1920-04-29
took us three young
ladies to drive. We went to the
lake, which was very lovely, changing
its hues with the changing skies.
The sunset was beautiful.
Ellen took Alice Hall
Birth: 1842-08-01 Death: 1920
home with
her to spend the night.
Monday Will goes off
again for a long tour on
express business—he will go
to many places in the West.
St. Louis is the one particularly
mentioned. The trip will oc-
cupy a week or ten days.
We are inquiring among ourselves,
when we may look for you here,
and when Fred
Birth: 1830-07-08 Death: 1915-04-25
and Anna
Birth: 1834-03-29 Death: 1919-05-02
will
visit Auburn. How glad we
shall all be to see you!
This morning the thermometer
is at seventy. We are all
surprised at the cool weather.
Very much love to all
Most affectionately your daughter
Fanny