Letter from Lazette Miller Worden to Augustus Henry Seward, February 20, 1868
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Letter from Lazette Miller Worden to Augustus Henry Seward, February 20, 1868
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Letter from Lazette Miller Worden to Augustus Henry Seward, February 20, 1868
action: sent
sender: Lazette Worden
Birth: 1803-11-01
Death: 1875-10-03
location: Auburn, NY
receiver: Augustus Seward
Birth: 1826-10-01
Death: 1876-09-11
location: Boston, MA
transcription: dhm
revision: srr 2021-07-20
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Auburn February 20th
My dear Augustus
I was glad to hear
from you last week – you seem so
much further away at Boston than
when you were in Washington – We
have had a very cold winter
here – since I came home – and
a great deal of snow – But there
was cold weather too in Washington –
and when I left there the snow was
quite deep – I have a letter to day
from Anna
Birth: 1834-03-29 Death: 1919-05-02
– written on Sunday –
she says her finger is still very much
swollen and at times very painful –
but she is able to preside at the dinners
& receptions – and last week attended
a dinner at the Presidents
Birth: 1808-12-29 Death: 1875-07-31
–Father
Birth: 1801-05-16 Death: 1872-10-10
thinks there has been so much time
lost that he is hurrying the dinners
and insists upon keeping up the re-
ceptions through Lent – They have
taken the furniture out of the guests
chamber – & stored it away in the
4th story – their receptions are so
large the three rooms do not accom-
modate them. Father dines out three
or four times a week & attends most
of the evening receptions – When Anna
wrote he had gone to dine with Mr
Sumner
Birth: 1811-01-06 Death: 1874-03-11
– On Monday Fred
Birth: 1830-07-08 Death: 1915-04-25
& Anna
were to go to N. York – to be gone un-
til to day – I hope she will see
Harriet Weed
Birth: 1819-02-06 Death: 1893-11-01
– the last time I heard
from Harriet she was not able to
walk without a crutch and but
a little with that- there was a re-
port that she & her Father
Birth: 1797-11-15 Death: 1882-11-22
were going
abroad when the Sanfords
Birth: 1841-06-27
Death: 1902-06-01 Certainty: Probable
Birth: 1823-06-15
Death: 1891-05-21 Certainty: Probable
– but as they sail this week Saturday
& I hear nothing of it I think they are
not going – Anna had a letter from
Maria Alden
Birth: 1823-07-05 Death: 1896-01-26
after you were in
New York – She said Harriet regretted
very much that she did not see
you When you called – & was sorry
she did not know you were in the
house until you left – as she would
have had you come to her room–
The wedding came off last night
– or rather the ceremony took place
at 4 and the reception at 8 – All
the town was invited and all the
milliners were engaged day and
night preparing dresses. Sheridan
Birth: 1831-03-06 Death: 1888-08-05
& Schuyler Crosby
Birth: 1839-09-19 Death: 1914-08-08
(his aid) were here
– I don’t think any other officers were
present though Mary
Birth: 1838-05-05 Death: 1884-01-26Certainty: Possible
invited half
of Washington & most of the Standing
Army – Nothing has been talked of
here but the wedding – since I came
home – Christopher Morgan
Birth: 1808-06-04 Death: 1877-04-03
has been
at the Martins
Birth: 1818-12-25
Death: 1899-07-09
Birth: 1808-11-25
Death: 1883-09-19
young girls
Unknown
from the city – making
wreaths and trimming the house –
I saw him on Tuesday & thought his
face indicated spontaneous com-
bustion –Fanny
Birth: 1848Certainty: Possible
& her motherUnknown
went
I did not – I do not like crowds –
Mr. Robert Muir
Birth: 1790 Death: 1868-02-17
died suddenly on
Sunday evening – he was 76 years of age
and quite infirm –
The weather has
changed and we are having a
thaw – a thing much desired
I hope you are having milder weather
in Boston – it used to be one of
the coldest places in the world – but
this winter every place is cold
Will
Birth: 1839-06-18 Death: 1920-04-29
is in N. York –Jenny
Birth: 1839-11-18 Death: 1913-11-09
and the
children
Birth: 1864-11-10
Death:
Birth: 1862-09-11
Death: 1921-10-05
says she wishes she could see uncle
Gus –
Your affectionate
Aunty