Letter from Frederick William Seward to William Henry Seward, August 23, 1866
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Letter from Frederick William Seward to William Henry Seward, August 23, 1866
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Date:1866-08-23
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Letter from Frederick William Seward to William Henry Seward, August 23, 1866
action: sent
sender: Frederick Seward
Birth: 1830-07-08
Death: 1915-04-25
location: Newport, RI
receiver: William Seward
Birth: 1801-05-16
Death: 1872-10-10
location: Washington D.C., US
transcription: ahf
revision: crb 2015-06-16
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Newport, Thursday
My dear Father,
This is your day
for diplomatic visits, but I think
you can hardly have a quorum of
the Corps at Washington, three
quarters of them being here.
Last night Mr Phelps
Mr Russell
Baron Grabow
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is rainy, windy and stormy; so that
we do not venture out doors.
We shall hear tomorrow of the
action of the Saratoga Convention.
Opinions here I suppose, are a
tolerable reflex of those in New York
and Boston. Almost everybody you
meet takes pains to say that he is
in favor if the Call of the Philadel-
phia Convention, coupling with it a
dubious apprehension of its possible
perverted action, the names of
Vallandigham
being the great bugbears.
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Newport, Thursday
My dear Father,
This is your day
for diplomatic visits, but I think
you can hardly have a quorum of
the Corps at Washington, three
quarters of them being here.
Last night Mr Phelps
Birth: 1779-09-08 Death: 1873-02-24Certainty: Possible
andMr Russell
Birth: 1820-03-28 Death: 1907-02-11Certainty: Possible
, of New York, andBaron Grabow
Birth: 1834
came to dinner. Todayis rainy, windy and stormy; so that
we do not venture out doors.
We shall hear tomorrow of the
action of the Saratoga Convention.
Opinions here I suppose, are a
tolerable reflex of those in New York
and Boston. Almost everybody you
meet takes pains to say that he is
in favor if the Call of the Philadel-
phia Convention, coupling with it a
dubious apprehension of its possible
perverted action, the names of
Vallandigham
Birth: 1820-07-29 Death: 1871-06-17
and Fernando Wood
Birth: 1812-06-14 Death: 1881-02-14
being the great bugbears.