Title: WILLIAM HENRY SEWARD PAPERS
Date range: 1730-1917
Location: A.S51
Size: 33 file drawers, 138 boxes, 56 volumes, 3 packages, 13 framed items, and 8 museum pieces.

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William Henry Seward was born in Florida, Orange County, New York in 1801. He was the son of Samuel Sweezy Seward and Mary (Jennings) Seward. He graduated from Union College in 1820, studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1822. In 1823, he moved to Auburn, New York, where he entered Judge Elijah Miller's law office. He married Frances Adeline Miller, the daughter of Judge Miller in 1824. Seward was interested in politics early in his career and became actively involved in the Anti-Masonic movement after 1828. With the backing of Thurlow Weed, the Whig newspaper editor, he was elected to the New York State Senate in 1830 where he served for four years. He was nominated by the Whigs for governor in 1834, but was defeated by William L. Marcy. From 1834 to 1838 he practiced law and served as an agent for the Holland Land Company, settling settlers' claims in Chautauqua County.

In 1838 Seward was elected governor of New York State and again in 1840. He favored internal improvements, public support of Catholic schools, and began to favor free soil and abolition positions. From 1842 to 1848 he again practiced law, first in the court of chancery and later in patent cases. He also defended cases involving fugitive slave laws.

In 1849 Seward was elected to the United States Senate, and increasingly built a reputation as an anti-slavery senator. After 1855, the Whig party merged into the Republican party, and Seward became one of the leading Republicans. He was passed over as the presidential nominee in 1856 and, though he was the front runner in 1860, Lincoln was given the nomination.

After Lincoln's election, Seward was appointed to the post of Secretary of State, a position he held until 1869 serving under both presidents Lincoln and Johnson.

As Secretary of State Seward was a central force in the administration. The major issues he dealt with during the Civil War years were the possibility of European intervention, the outfitting of Confederate cruisers in British ports, the Trent affair and the French invasion of Mexico. Seward was also interested in territorial expansion, and in 1867 negotiated the purchase of Alaska from Russia.

Seward was seriously wounded in the Lincoln assassination conspiracy, and after 1865 his health was not good. He retired from public life upon Grant's election, and despite his poor health, took a trip around the world in 1871. William Henry Seward died in Auburn on October 10, 1872.

William Henry and Frances Adeline Seward had three sons and two daughters. Augustus Henry Seward (1826-1876) graduated from West Point, pursued a career in the army, and spent much of his life in the West in the paymaster corps. He rose to the rank of major.

Frederick William Seward (1830-1915) attended Union College, graduating in 1849, and served as secretary to his father from 1849 to 1857. He worked as associate editor of the Albany Evening Journal edited by Thurlow Weed from 1851 to 1861. When his father was appointed Secretary of State, Frederick became assistant secretary of state, in charge of consular service. After W. H. Seward was injured in a carriage accident in 1865, Frederick served as acting secretary of state. He was also wounded during the assassination attempt on Seward. Frederick was elected to the New York State Assembly in 1874 and served as assistant United States secretary of state under Rutherford Hayes from 1877 to 1879. Frederick also edited and published his father's autobiography and letters. He married Anna Wharton of Albany, and spent the latter part of his life in a house he built in Montrose, Westchester County, New York.

William Henry Seward, Jr. (1839-1920) was educated at home. He became interested in finance and, in partnership with Clinton McDougall, opened a private bank in Auburn in 1861. He abandoned banking in order to fight in the Civil War, where he eventually rose to the rank of brigadier-general. After the war, he returned to banking and lived with his wife, Janet MacNeil (Watson) Seward, in the family homestead in Auburn.

Of the Seward's two daughters, Cornelia Seward (1835-1836) died of smallpox at the age of 5 months, and Frances (Fanny) Adeline Seward (1844-1866), who lived at home, never enjoyed good health. She wanted to become a writer, and from the age of fourteen until her death at age 22, she kept a detailed diary which recorded both Auburn and political Washington life.

The Papers consist of the public, private and family correspondence of William Henry Seward and his immediate family; files from Seward's term as governor, and as United States Secretary; personal financial and legal records; speeches, proclamations, diaries and secondary printed material relating to his life and career. The collection contains personal papers of Seward's wife Frances Adeline (Miller) Seward, his three sons, Augustus, Frederick and William Henry, Jr., his daughter, Frances Adeline, and his daughter-in-law Janet McNeil (Watson) Seward. Other members of the family represented by small amounts of material (less than five inches) are Seward's adopted daughter Olive Risley Seward, his grandfather John Seward (1730-1797), his father Samuel Sweezy Seward (1768-1849), his brother Edwin Polydore Seward, nephew George Frederic Seward (1840-1910) and grandson William Henry Seward III (1864-1951).

 

Biographical Information:

    Dictionary of American Biography
    Van Deusen, G. William Henry Seward. New York, 1967
    Seward, F. W. William Henry Seward. New York, 1891

Gift of William Henry Seward III, 1945-1951 and purchase of supplementary material.



MICROFORM EDITION:

The sections of the Seward Papers described below have been microfilmed for preservation purposes and users wishing to use these sections will be referred to the microform edition.

All the primary materials relating to William Henry Seward, that is public indexed, family, and general unindexed correspondence (section I), public papers (section II) and speeches, diaries and drafts (section III A-C, E-F) were microfilmed by Research Publications, Inc. In Section III D, the bound account books were filmed, but the largely unsorted financial receipts and canceled checks were not filmed. Section III G, Boxes 102-104 and Volumes 33-35a, consisting of newspaper clippings and File Drawer 33, essays and published articles about William H. Seward (1873-present) were not filmed.

The materials relating to other members of the Seward family were not filmed, except for the following: material relating to Frances Adeline (Miller) Seward (Section IV A, Box 105), Frederick William Seward's notes for his biography of his father (Section IV C, Box 118) and the diary of Frances (Fanny) Adeline Seward, 1858-1866 (Section IV F. Boxes 134-135).



SEWARD PAPERS--TABLE OF CONTENTS

I. Correspondence.

II. Public Papers.

III. Miscellaneous and Personal.

IV. Seward Family.

V. Objects and other materials separated from collection.



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CORRESPONDENCE--INDEXED

File drawer:

  1. 1800-1838.
  2. 1839.
  3. January - May 1840.
  4. June - December 1840.
  5. January - June 1841.
  6. July - December 1841.
  7. January - July 1842.
  8. August 1842 - 1848.
  9. 1849.
  10. 1850.
  11. 1851.
  12. 1852.
  13. 1853-1855.
  14. 1856-1857.
  15. 1858-1860.
  16. January - August 1861.
  17. September 1861 - May 1862.
  18. June - December 1862.
  19. January - August 1863.
  20. September 1863 - March 1864.
  21. April - December 1864.
  22. January - June 1865.
  23. July - December 1865.
  24. January - September 1866.
  25. October 1866 - June 1867.
  26. July 1867 - September 1868.
  27. October 1868 - 1870.
  28. 1871-1910, no date.

File drawer 28: 8 reels of microfilm from indexed correspondence.

  1. George Ellis Baker Correspondence.
  2. Simon Cameron material.
  3. A. Oakey Hall correspondence.
  4. Harrisburg Convention - Election of 1840.
  5. Preston King correspondence.
  6. Nott correspondence.
  7. J.L. O'Sullivan correspondence.
  8. James Watson Webb correspondence.

2 reels of microfilm in other collections

  1. Seward Mss in Huntington Library.
  2. Seward Mss in Chicago Historical Society Library.

 

CORRESPONDENCE--FAMILY (Not Indexed)

File drawer 29:

    Folders 1-14: William Henry Seward to Frances Adeline (Miller) Seward, 1831-1865 (oversized letters for 1833 shelved at end of collection with packages).

    Folders 15-28: William Henry Seward to his Children, 1837-1871, no date.

    William Henry Seward to Elijah Miller, December 16, 1831 - January 22, 1832.

    Folders 30-89: Frances Adeline (Miller) Seward to William Henry Seward, 1828 - June 1865, no date.

    Folders 90-134: Frances Adeline (Miller) Seward to her Children, December 1836 - 1865, no date.

    Folders 135-139: Augustus Henry Seward to the Family, 1836-1875, no date.

    Folders 140-154: Frances (Fanny) Seward to the Family, 1855 - October 1866, no date.

    Folders 155-156: Frances (Fanny) Seward to Mrs. Lazette Maria (Miller) Worden, February 15, 1857 - June 18, 1865, no date.

File drawer 30:

    Folders 1-38: Frederick and Anna Seward to the Family, 1836-1915+, no date.

    Folders 39-70: William Henry, Jr., and Janet Seward to the Family, 1846-1915, no date.

    Folders 71-105: Mrs. Frances Adeline (Miller) Seward to Mrs. Lazette Maria (Miller) Worden, 1829-1865, no date and fragments.

    Folder 105a: Mrs. Frances Adeline (Miller) Seward to Mrs. Louisa Cornelia (Seward) Canfield, 1832

    Folders 106-123: Samuel Sweezy to William Henry Seward, 1824-1849.

File drawer 31:

    Folders 1-7: William Henry Seward to Benjamin Jennings Seward, 1837-1840.

    H.A. Risley to William Henry Seward and family during illness of Risley's wife and daughter, fall of 1868.

    Folders 9-26: Benjamin Jennings Seward to William Henry Seward, 1824-1841.

    Folders 27-30: David Berdan to Seward, May 4, 1922 - July 21, 1828.

    Folders 31-159: General Correspondence, 1815-1873, no date.

 

CORRESPONDENCE--GENERAL (Not Indexed)

Box:

  1. 1824-1840.
  2. 1841-1848.
  3. 1849 - May 1850.
  4. June 1850 - December 1850.
  5. 1851-1852.
  6. 1853.
  7. 1854-1855.
  8. January 1856 - March 1856.
  9. April 1856 - June 1856.
  10. July 1856 - December 1856, undated 1856.
  11. 1857.
  12. 1858-1860.
  13. 1861-1863.
  14. 1864.
  15. 1865-1866.
  16. 1867-1888.

Bound Volumes:

    1. William Henry Seward Correspondence 1839-1841.
    2. Correspondence: Frederick William Seward and William Henry Seward, 1863- 1865
    3. State Department: Domestic letters - vol. 1: 1861-1866 (index to volumes 1 & 2 in volume 1).
      4. 2
    4. State Department: Domestic Letters - vol. 2: 1868-1869.
    5. State Department: Foreign dispatches to Austria, Argentine, Republic, Brazil, Belgium, Barbary Powers, Chile, Central America, Denmark, Hawaii, Italy - vol. 1: 1861-1869.
    6. State Department: Foreign dispatches to Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, Prussia, Portugal, Peru, Rome, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, Venezuela - vol. 2: 1861-1869.
    7. State Department: Foreign dispatches to Great Britain, France, 1861-1869.
    8. State Department: Foreign letters to William L. Dayton, John Bigelow, John A. Dix (bound at end), [William Henry Seward Memorandum to A. Lincoln on defense of Fort Sumter, March 15, 1861], 1862-1869.
    9. State Department: Correspondence with Henry Shelton Sanford, 1861-1868.
    10. Private Correspondence: William Henry Seward and Frederick William Seward, 1863-1865.



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PUBLIC PAPERS--GOVERNOR'S PAPERS AND SUBJECT FILES

Bound Volumes:

    1. Applications for Office (arranged by county and office).
    2. Nominations to Office (arranged by county and office).

Boxes 17-47: Applications for office (letters and recommendations, arranged by name of applicant).

Boxes 48-58: Applications for pardon (case files, letters and recommendations, arranged by name of applicant).

Bound Volumes:

    1. Judgments on pardons, 1839-1842.
    2. Pardon Case: John Caldwell Colt, 1841-1842.
      1. Pardon Case: Robert M. Graham, 1855.
    3. Pardon Case: Benjamin Rathbun.

Box 59:

  • Administration of Justice.
  • Albany County Riots.
  • Albany Loan Commissioners.
  • American Life Insurance.
  • Angus, Robert.
  • Appointments.
  • Bank Bonds.
  • Banks.
  • Barron, Octavius (Murder).
  • Bemnet, Lewis.
  • Bennett and Fluett.
  • Blatchford, Richard M.
  • Briggs, Edgar M.
  • Brotherton Tribe.
  • Budd, Marshall.
  • Buel and Wheeler.
  • Bull, John.
  • Carter, Henry A.
  • Chandler, Daniel H.
  • Cole, Orange.
  • Consuls Rights.
  • Conway, Patrick (Murder).
  • Cook, Charles (Murder).
  • Counterfeiting in Albany.

Box 60: County Clerks Reports, 1838-1840.

Box 61:

  • County Clerk's Reports, 1841-1842.
  • County Offices.
  • Court of Session - Reorganization.
  • Crandall, John G.
  • Cullings, Samuel S.
  • Davis, James Lewis (Murder).
  • Decreto (New Granada, May 30, 1838).
  • Deeds Commissioner.
  • Doe, Nicholas B.
  • Douglass, David (Murder).
  • Douse, Samuel D. (Murder).
  • Dygert, John B.
  • Election of 1838.
  • Election of 1839.
  • Election of 1840.
  • Election of 1841.

Box 62: Extradition Requests, A - C.

Box 63: Extradition Requests, D - L.

Box 64: Extradition Requests, M - R.

Box 65: Extradition Requests, S - T.

Box 66: Extradition Requests, U - Z.

Box 67:

  • Fires on New York State Frontier.
  • Foreign Relations (Opinion of J.C. Spencer on Extradition).
  • Foster, James (Murder).
  • Fox, John (Murder).
  • Frauds Against Creditors.
  • Freeman, Zachariah Jr. (Murder).
  • Frost, William.
  • Fuller, Jabez (Murder).
  • Gallagher, Michael.
  • Gaul, John.
  • Genesee County Judges.
  • Geological Specimens.
  • Geological Survey (Manuscripts for Seward's Preface: "Notes on New York").
  • Geological Survey (Miscellaneous).
  • Georgia-Virginia Controversy.
  • Gillride, Michael.
  • Gorld, Amos.
  • Graham, John (Murder).

Box 68:

  • Hamilton Village Judge.
  • Hand, Jacob.
  • Helderberg War, 1839.
  • Helderberg War, 1840.
  • Holmes, Sylvanus.
  • House, Silas.
  • Indian Affairs.
  • Inglis, William.
  • Iroquois Tribe.
  • Johnson, Samuel (Murder).
  • Johnson, W. Cost.
  • Johnson, William.
  • Koon, Henry.
  • Langel, Joseph (Murder).
  • Lawrence, Grove.
  • Leadings, Jacob (Murder).
  • Lett, Benjamin.
  • Lockwood, Phineas.
  • Lunatic Asylum at Utica.

Box 69:

  • McCarthy, Lawrence (Murder).
  • McEllery, Major (Murder).
  • McLeod, Alexander (Trial).
  • Madison County Judges - Removal.
  • Messages to Legislature, January 1-14, 1839.
  • Messages to Legislature, January 15-31, 1839.
  • Messages to Legislature, February 1-14, 1839.
  • Messages to Legislature, February 15-28, 1839.
  • Messages to Legislature, March 1-14, 1839.
  • Messages to Legislature, March 15-31, 1839 (includes recommendations for appointments).
  • Messages to Legislature, April - December 1839.
  • Messages to Legislature, 1840.
  • Messages to Legislature, 1841.
  • Messages to Legislature, January 1842.
  • Messages to Legislature, February 1842.
  • Messages to Legislature, March 1842.
  • Messages to Legislature, April - December 1842.

Box 70:

  • Miller, Robert (Murder).
  • Miscellaneous.
  • Mitchell, Charles F.
  • Morris, Robert H.
  • Moulton, David.
  • Murray, James.
  • Neary, John.
  • New York and Erie Railroad.
  • New York (City) Aldermen.
  • New York (State) Artillery.
  • New York (State) Military Papers.
  • Niagara Sufferers.
  • Nichols, Sylvester.

Box 71:

  • Oneida Tribe.
  • Onondaga Tribe.
  • Orleans County Sheriff.
  • O'Roork, Samuel.
  • Patterson, George Washington.
  • Patterson, Thomas J.
  • Peel, Sir Robert (Burning of)
  • Pennsylvania Commissioners - Deeds.
  • Phelps, George.
  • Pheonix Bank.
  • Pierce, William (Murder).
  • Planters Bank of Mississippi.
  • Public Lands Distribution.
  • Rapallo, Anthony.
  • Rathbone, Jared L.
  • Rathbun, Lyman.
  • Rector, Thomas.
  • Reed, Edward.

Box 72: Resignations, A - M.

Box 73:

  • Resignations, N - Z.
  • Resolutions.
  • Richardson, Joseph L.
  • Roads.
  • Robertson, Rufus.
  • Rogers, Mary C.
  • Russell, Patrick (Murder).

Box 74:

  • St. Regis Tribe.
  • Salt Duties - Comparative Figures.
  • Schoharie County Riots.
  • Senate Agreement re Appointments.
  • Seneca Tribe.
  • Sing Sing Report.
  • Smith, Cyrus, 1842.
  • Smock, John (Murder).
  • Sparta Township.
  • Spencer, John C. Papers.
  • Stewart, John.
  • Stockbridge Tribe.
  • Sullivan County Judges.

Box 75:

  • Tappan, Christopher P.
  • Teachers of Common Schools.
  • Thanksgiving Proclamation, 1841.
  • Thomas, Joseph.
  • Thompson, George (Murder).
  • Titus, John.
  • Tonawanda Tribe.
  • Toppin(g), Thomas (Murder).
  • Tuscarora Tribe.
  • Union College Alumni.
  • University of the City of New York.
  • Vanderheyden, Jacob.

Box 76:

  • White, Ezra (Murder).
  • Wilber, Lewis (Murder).
  • Williams, Isaac P.
  • Wood, Isaac J.
  • Wright, Henry.
  • Yates, Stephen.

Box 77: New York State Militia, 1829-1842.

    Folder 1: Records of the 33rd Regiment 4th Brigade, 4th Division of Artillery New York State Militia, 1829-1841, bound volume.

    Folders 2-10: Documents relating to "Caroline" incident, 1829-1839.

    Folders 11-16: General militia records - Seward term, 1840-1842, no date.

Bound Volumes:

    1. Answers to invitations, Governor's entertainment, August 22, 1842.
    2. Torrey, John - Specimen of the botany of the State of New York (mounted botanical specimens).

      

PUBLIC PAPERS--SENATORIAL

Bound Volumes:

    1. Mailing Lists 1856
    2. Mailing Lists, 1856.

Box 78: Miscellaneous Senatorial.

Folder:

  1. Senate election, 1849.
  2. Miscellaneous papers as senator, 1849-1860.
  3. Petitions, 1849-1860.
  4. Page from autograph book.
  5. Reminiscences of Napoleon III.
  6. John Brown testimony.

 

PUBLIC PAPERS--NATIONAL AFFAIRS

Box 79: State Department Memos.

Folders 1-9: Appointments.

  1. Newspaper Patronage.
  2. Business, 1861-1862.
  3. Business, 1863-1864.
  4. Business, 1865-1866.
  5. Business, 1867.
  6. Business, 1868-1869.
  7. Business, no date.
  8. Business, no date.
  9. Business, no date.
  10. Business, no date.
  11. Printed Material.

Box 80: Miscellaneous State Department.

Folder:

  1. Waring, Arthur (Rev.), 1866.
  2. Ward, Frederick Townsend (General), 1864.
  3. Diplomatic Dispatch re Corean Incident, 1867.
  4. Mexico, 1863-1869.
  5. Alaska, 1867-1869.
  6. DeStockl Correspondence.
  7. Petitions, 1861-1864.
  8. State Department receipts and vouchers, April 1861 - April 1862 (bound volume).
  9. State Department receipts and vouchers, May 1862 - September 1867.
  10. State Department receipts and vouchers, material laid in back of volume - May 1862 - September 1867.

 

Package 1: Photostats of material in National Archives relating to Alaska Purchase.

Box 81: Army and War Departments, Executive and Presidential.

Folder:

  1. Army and War Departments, 1856-1861.
  2. Army and War Departments, 1862.
  3. Army and War Departments, 1863.
  4. Army and War Departments, 1864-1871.
  5. Army and War Departments, no date.
  6. Presidential Proclamations and Messages, 1862-1869.
  7. President's Cabinet and Congress, 1862-1867.
  8. Draft of Andrew Johnson's State of the Union Message, November 1865.
  9. Andrew Johnson Material, 1866.
  10. Draft of Andrew Johnson's veto message on admission of Colorado, May 15, 1866.
  11. Draft of Andrew Johnson's Proclamation, September 7, 1867.
  12. Draft of Andrew Johnson's Third Annual Message, December 3, 1867.
  13. Andrew Johnson's Fourth Annual Message, December 9, 1868.

Box 82: Miscellaneous material organized by date.

Folder:

  1. 1830-1839.
  2. 1840-1849.
  3. 1850-1853.
  4. 1854-1859.
  5. 1860.
  6. 1861.
  7. 1862.
  8. 1863.
  9. 1864.
  10. 1865.
  11. 1866-1869.
  12. 1870-1879.
  13. no date.
  14. no date.
  15. no date.



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MISCELLANEOUS AND PERSONAL--SPEECHES AND PROCLAMATIONS
(Includes notes, drafts, texts and printed proofs.)

File drawer 32:

Folder:

  1. Draft of address of the Anti-Masonic Members of Legislature, April 20, 1832.
  2. Text: Sketch of Remarks on "Auburn and Syracuse RR.", Syracuse, NY, August 6, 1834.
  3. Address to Young Men Graduates, c.1835.
  4. New York and Erie Railroad, October 17, 1837.
  5. Draft of address to Young Men's Association at Troy, June 25, 1838.
  6. Governor's Message to Legislature, January 1, 1839, preliminary draft.
  7. Draft: Commencement Address, Union College, July 24, 1839.
  8. Speech at Ogdensburg, August 10, 1839.
  9. Projected veto of the Registry Act, April 1840.
  10. Draft of Speech Delivered at Cherry Valley Centennial, July 4, 1840.
  11. Speech at the Dinner to the Electors, December 2, 1840.
  12. Governor's Message to Legislature, 1840, notes used for preparation.
  13. Thanksgiving Proclamation, c.1840.
  14. Draft of Proclamation re: Stolen State guns.
  15. Seward on Catholic Schools, c.1841.
  16. Speech to Albany Female Academy Alumnae Association, July 14, 1842.
  17. Governor's Message to Legislature, 1842, notes used for preparation.
  18. Text: Speech to Whigs of Cayuga and Cortland Counties, February 22, 1844.
  19. Phi Beta Kappa Speech, Union College, July 22, 1844.
  20. Drafts: The True Greatness of Our Country, July 23, 1844.
  21. The True Greatness of Our Country, Baltimore, December 22, 1848.
  22. Text: The True Greatness of Our Country, Baltimore, Maryland, December 22, 1848.
  23. Draft of Speech on Canadian Reciprocity, 1850.
  24. Text: Speech in U.S. Senate re: Death of Alexander H. Buell, 1852.
  25. Speech notes on annexation of Cuba, c.1852.
  26. The True Basis of American Independence, October 20, 1853.
  27. Text: Expenses and Revenues, U.S. Senate, March 2, 1854.
  28. Text: Eulogy on Samuel Stevens, U.S. Circuit Court, Albany, NY, October 18, 1854.
  29. Proof: Dangers of Extending Slavery, October 12, 1855.
  30. Proof: The Contest and the Crisis, October 19, 1855.
  31. Notes for a Speech, c.1855.
  32. Notes for Speech on Central American Question in Senate, January 31, 1856.
  33. Speech Fragments: The Immediate Admission of Kansas, April 1856.
  34. Draft: Kansas and the Army, Senate, August 27, 1856.
  35. Text: Immigrant Voluntary Free Labor vs. Imported Slave Labor, Oswego, NY, November 3, 1856.
  36. Text: Eulogy on John M. Clayton, U.S. Senate, December 3, 1856.
  37. Speech notes on Kansas Question, c.1856.
  38. Text: Eulogy on James Bell, U.S. Senate (1857?).
  39. Text: The Pacific Railroad, U.S. Senate, December 21, 1858.
  40. Notes and First draft of Speech on Amistad Case, December 1858.
  41. Second Draft of Speech on Amistad Case, December 1858.
  42. Third Draft of Speech on Amistad Case, December 1858.
  43. Text: The Amistad Case, December 1858.
  44. Text: Volunteer Reinforcements for the Utah Army, U.S. Senate, February 13, (1858?).
  45. Kansas Question: General Principles of Decision, c.1858.
  46. Speech on Kansas Question, c.1858.
  47. Speech in Senate, c.1858.
  48. Text: Speech Upon Returning Home from Europe, Auburn, NY, December 31, 1859.
  49. Notes from speech after return from Europe, c.1859.
  50. Text: Eulogy on David C. Broderick, U.S. Senate, February 13, 1860.
  51. Speech Notes: Slavery, J. Brown, Kansas, February 29, 1860.
  52. The State of the Country, Senate, February 29, 1860.
  53. Text: Eulogy on Silas M. Burroughs, U.S. Senate, June 1860.
  54. Draft: The National Divergence and Return, Detroit, September 4, 1860.
  55. Draft: The National Divergence and Return, Detroit, September 4, 1860.
  56. Draft: The National Divergence and Return, Detroit, September 4, 1860.
  57. Draft: The National Divergence and Return, Detroit, September 4, 1860.
  58. Draft: The National Divergence and Return, Detroit, September 4, 1860.
  59. Draft: The National Divergence and Return, Detroit, September 4, 1860.
  60. Final Draft: The National Divergence and Return, Detroit, September 4, 1860.
  61. Text: The National Divergence and Return, Detroit, September 4, 1860.
  62. Text: Speech at Lansing, Michigan, September 6, 1860.
  63. Proof: Duty and Responsibility of the Northwest, September 12, 1860.
  64. Excerpt: Speech at Madison, Wisconsin, September 12, 1860.
  65. Text: Speech at Lacrosse, September 16, 1860.
  66. Text: Speech at St. Paul, Minn., September 18, 1860.
  67. Proof: The West: Its Destiny and Its Duty, September 21, 1860.
  68. Proof: Speech at Lawrence, Kansas, September 26, 1860.
  69. Text: Speech at St. Joseph, Missouri, September 1860.
  70. Excerpts: Political Speeches in West, September - October 1860.
  71. Proof: Speech at Lyons, New York, October 30, 1860.
  72. Proof: "The Character of the Present Crises," Seneca Falls, N.Y., October 31, 1860.
  73. Proof: Speech at Fredonia, New York, October 1860.
  74. Proof: Speech at St. Paul, Minn. (October?) 1860.
  75. Text: Speech at Bangor, Maine, 1860.
  76. Text: Eulogy on John Schwartz, U.S. Senate, 1860.
  77. Speech on Kansas Question, Massachusetts, c.1860.
  78. Speech notes: Admission of slave states, c.1860.
  79. Notes for speech on Union, c.1860.
  80. Notes for a speech, c.1860.
  81. Speech given between election and inauguration, c.1860.
  82. Notes for speeches in Senate, c.1860.
  83. Notes for speeches in Senate, c.1860.
  84. Notes for speeches in Senate, c.1860.
  85. Notes for speeches in Senate, c.1860.
  86. Notes for speeches in Senate, c.1860.
  87. Draft of Speech in Senate, January 12, 1861.
  88. Notes for Speech in Senate, January 12, 1861.
  89. Notes for last speech in Senate, January 31, 1861.
  90. Notes for a speech, early 1861.
  91. Speech: The Present Condition of the Country, February 1861.
  92. Part of annual message: explanation of suspension of habeas corpus, c. December 1861.
  93. Speech on the Union and Secession, c.1861.
  94. Speech: Appeal, c.1861.
  95. Proclamation draft: suspension of habeas corpus in Kentucky, c.1861.
  96. Draft of Message on Mexican Affairs, 1862.
  97. Remarks made in Vermont, February 1863.
  98. Draft of Abraham Lincoln's Proclamation on National Fast Day, March 30, 1863.
  99. Seward's mss. draft of Presidential Proclamation suspending the Writ of Habeas Corpus, September 15, 1863.
  100. Proclamation on Suspension of Habeas Corpus, September 1863.
  101. Draft of Foreign Affairs section of Abraham Lincoln's Second Annual Message, December 8, 1863.
  102. Draft of Circular after Battle of Chattanooga, December 1863.
  103. Thanksgiving Proclamation, October 20, 1864.
  104. Draft of Speech at Auburn, November 7, 1864.
  105. Statement on death of Archbishop Hughes, c.1864.
  106. Oath of allegiance for rebels, c.1864.
  107. Notes for speech during Northwest trip, c.1864.
  108. Fragment of speech delivered at Auburn, October 20, 1865.
  109. Reconciliation Speech, Auburn, May 22, 1865.
  110. The Situation and the Duty, October 1868.
  111. Draft of speech given in Mexico City, Mexico, November or December 1869.
  112. Draft of speech given at National Dinner Palace of Mexico, December 1869.
  113. Remarks made during trip to Mexico c.1869.
  114. Remarks on Mexico c.1869.
  115. Speech on his Travels, March 1870.
  116. Notes made in Auburn, April 12, 1870.
  117. Speech given in China, 1870.
  118. Speech given at Skaneateles, c.1870.
  119. Fragment of speech on newspaper press, no date.
  120. Speech in Supreme Court - Collin vs. Thompson and others, no date.
  121. Fragment of remarks on Pacific Railroad, no date.
  122. Notes for speech on the role of U.S. in the Western Hemisphere, no date.
  123. William Henry Seward's draft for President Lincoln's Address to Evangelical Lutherans, no date.
  124. Notes for speech on U.S.-British Relations, no date.
  125. The Difference Between the Parties, no date.
  126. Tape of speech given at Sitka, Alaska, August 12, 1869, read by Frank Brink.
  127. European Trip Diary, May 27, 1833-June 20, 1833.
  128. European Trip Diary, July 28, 1833-September 29, 1833.
  129. European Trip Diary Form Letters, June 2-7, 1833.
  130. European Trip Diary Form Letters, Letter 26, 1833.
  131. European Trip Diary Form Letters, Letters 27-29, 1833.
  132. European Trip Diary Form Letters, Letters 30-34, 1833.
  133. European Trip Diary Form Letters, Letter 35, 1833.
  134. European Trip Diary Form Letters, Letters 36-37, 1833.
  135. European Trip Diary Form Letters, Letter 38, 1833.
  136. European Trip Diary Form Letters, Letter 39, 1833.
  137. European Trip Diary Form Letters, Letters 40-41, 1833.
  138. European Trip Diary Form Letters, Letters 42-43, 1833.
  139. European Trip Diary Form Letters, Letters 44-45, 1833.
  140. European Trip Diary Form Letters, Letter 46, 1833.
  141. European Trip Diary Form Letters, Letter 47, 1833.
  142. European Trip Diary Form Letters, Letters 48-49, 1833.
  143. European Trip Diary Form Letters, Letters 50-62, 1833.
  144. European Trip Diary Form Letters, Letters 63-67, 1833.
  145. Diary: Trip Through Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Maryland, 1835.
  146. Log of Cruise to Labrador, July-August, 1857.
  147. Review of The Headsman, by James Ferrimore Cooper. Written or copied? by Seward.
  148. Notes on Chenango Canal, c.1835.
  149. Abstract of swamp and bog drainage bill for Orange County, c.1840.
  150. Governor Seward's Message on Public Education, c.1840.
  151. Notes for Governor's Message: Deaf and Dumb Reports, c.1840.
  152. Prayer or meditation, c.1840.
  153. William Henry Seward's views on the Bible, November 4, 1852.
  154. The Arrival of ? in Washington, c.1860.
  155. Memo re Interview with Robert M.T. Hunter, March 11, 1861.
  156. Suggestions to the President re: provision of Fort Sumter, March 15, 1861.
  157. Some thoughts for the President's consideration, April 1, 1861.
  158. General Remarks, c.1861
  159. Suggestions for Abraham Lincoln for a speech, c.1861.
  160. Foreign Intervention in War, c. October 1862.
  161. Fragment of Instructions re 1862 Occupation of New Orleans.
  162. Notes made during a Cabinet Meeting, c.1862.
  163. Report on West Virginia's Legal claims to Statehood, 1862.
  164. Faith, Hope, Charity, August 1863.
  165. Unidentified fragment, c.1864.
  166. Sketch of the career of Eliphalat Nott, c.1865.
  167. Notes made during Northwest Trip, July 29, 1869.
  168. Notes made during Northwest Trip, 1869.
  169. Notes made during Northwest Trip, 1869
  170. Notes on French in Mexico, c. 1869s.
  171. Notes for joint resolution to call constitutional convention, c. 1860s.
  172. Notes of thanks for help during fire, c. 1860s.
  173. Reading notes on America, Benjamin Franklin, no date.
  174. Unidentified fragment, no date.
  175. Memoranda of Speeches, Letters, Books and Notes of William Henry Seward.

 

MISCELLANEOUS AND PERSONAL--FINANCIAL AND LEGAL

1a. Business - Business Finances.

Box 83:

Folder:

  1. 1826-1828.
  2. 1836-1841.
  3. 1836-1846.
  4. 1862-1865.
  5. 1866-1869.

Bound Volume 19: 1867-1872.

 

1b. Business - Chautaqua.

Box 83:

Folder:

  1. 6: Accounts: Chautauqua Trip, 1836.
  2. Chautauqua Land Office, c.1840.
  3. Letterbook: Chautauqua Co., 1836.
  4. Real Estate: Chautauqua Co., 1857-1859.

 

1c. Business - Miller and Seward.

Bound Volumes:

    1. 20: 1826-1828
    2. 21: 1828-1830; 1834; 1843-1859,

Box 83:

    Folder:
    1. Accounts: Elijah Miller Estate, 1851-1859.

Bound Volume 22: Miller (Elijah) Estate, 1864

 

1d. Business - Patterson-Seward.

Box 83:

    Folder:
    1. Patterson-Seward Accounts, 1857-1862.

 

1e. Business - Bank Books.

Box 84:

Folder:

  1. 1830-1836.
  2. 1836.
  3. 1836-1838.
  4. 1838-1842.
  5. 1839-1842.
  6. 1842-1843.

 

1f. Business - Real Estate.

Box 84:

    Folder:

    7. 1836-1837.
    7a. Real Estate Holdings, nd. Includes entry for Mrs. H. Tubman

 

1g. Business - Plat Book.

Box 84:

    Folder:
    1. Plat Book: Iowa Lands belonging to Seward.

 

1h. Business - Estate.

Box 84:

    Folder:
    1. Estate: Abstracts of Seward's Personal Estate, November 1, 1872.

 

2a. Personal - Miscellaneous personal.

Box 84:

    Folder:
    1. Letterbook: May 16, 1827 - May 10, 1830.
    2. Miscellaneous notes, c.1830.
    3. Memorandum, 1832.
    4. Memorandum, 1832.
    5. Memorandum, 1831-1835.

 

2b. Personal - Household Accounts.

Box 84:

    Folder:
    1. 15: 1838-1839.
    2. 1839-1840.
    3. (oil), 1839-1841.

Box 85:

    Folder:
    1. 1839-1842 (Frances Adeline (Miller) Seward).
    2. 1840-1842.
    3. (groceries), 1841-1842.
    4. 1851-1864 (Frances Adeline (Miller) Seward).
    5. 1855-1857.
    6. 1857.
    7. 1858-1859.
    8. 1863-1864.
    9. 1862-1865.
    10. July 1864-July 1865.
    11. August 1865-February 1866.
    12. 1871-1872.

2c. Personal - Personal Finance Accounts.

Bound Volumes:

    1. May 1859-1860.
    2. May 1859-November 1861.
    3. May 1859-December 1861.
    4. 1859-1864.
    5. 1861-1868.
    6. 1862-August 1867.
    7. 1863-1867.
    8. 1865-1870.
    9. Cash Book, February 1869-January 1871.
    10. 1871-1872.

     

3. Financial and Legal Papers.

Box 86:

    Folder:
    1. 1823-1827.
    2. 1828-1829.
    3. 1830.
    4. January-May 1831.
    5. June-September 1831.
    6. October-December 1831.
    7. 1832.
    8. 1833.
    9. January-July 1834.
    10. August-December 1834.
    11. January-April 1835.
    12. May-December 1835.
    13. January-February 1836.
    14. March-April 1836.
    15. May-August 1836.
    16. September-November 1836.
    17. December 1836.

Box 87:

Folder:

  1. January-April 1837.
  2. May-August 1837.
  3. September-December 1837.
  4. January-May 1838.
  5. June-August 1838.
  6. September-November 1838.
  7. December 1838.
  8. January-February 1839.
  9. March 1839.
  10. April 1839.
  11. May 1839.
  12. June 1-15, 1839.
  13. June 16-30, 1839.
  14. July 1839.
  15. August 1839.
  16. September 1839.
  17. October 1839.
  18. November 1839.
  19. December 1-15, 1839.
  20. December 16-31, 1839.

Box 88:

Folder:

  1. January-February 1840.
  2. March 1840.
  3. April 1840.
  4. May-June 1840.
  5. July 1840.
  6. August 1840.
  7. September 1840.
  8. October 1840.
  9. November 1840.
  10. December 1840.
  11. January-February 1841.
  12. March 1841.
  13. April 1841.
  14. May 1841.
  15. June 1841.
  16. July 1841.
  17. August 1841.
  18. September 1841.
  19. October 1841.
  20. November 1841.
  21. December 1841.

Box 89:

Folder:

  1. January 1842.
  2. February 1842.
  3. March 1842.
  4. April 1842.
  5. May 1842.
  6. June 1842.
  7. July 1842.
  8. August 1842.
  9. September-October 1842.
  10. November 1842.
  11. December 1842.
  12. January 1843.
  13. February 1843.
  14. March-April 1843.
  15. May-June 1843.
  16. July-August 1843.
  17. September-October 1843.
  18. November-December 1843.

Box 90:

Folder:

  1. January-February 1844.
  2. March-April 1844.
  3. May-July 1844.
  4. August-October 1844.
  5. November-December 1844.
  6. January-August 1845.
  7. September-December 1845.
  8. January-August 1846.
  9. September-December 1846.
  10. January-May 1847.
  11. June-August 1847.
  12. September-December 1847.
  13. January-April 1848.
  14. May-August 1848.
  15. September-December 1848.
  16. January-April 1849.
  17. May-July 1849.
  18. August-October 1849.
  19. November 1849.
  20. December 1849.
  21. 1849 (Canceled Checks).

Box 91:

Folder:

  1. January 1850.
  2. February-March 1850.
  3. April 1850.
  4. May-June 1850.
  5. July-August 1850.
  6. September-October 1850.
  7. November-December 1850.
  8. 1850 (Canceled Checks).
  9. January-February 1851.
  10. March 1851.
  11. April-June 1851.
  12. July-September 1851.
  13. October 1851.
  14. November 1851.
  15. December 1851.
  16. January-March 1852.
  17. April-June 1852.
  18. July-September 1852.
  19. October-November 1852.
  20. December 1852.
  21. 1852 (Canceled Checks).

Box 92:

Folder:

  1. January-March 1853.
  2. April-July 1853.
  3. August-October 1853.
  4. November 1853.
  5. December 1853.
  6. January-March 1854.
  7. April-May 1854.
  8. June-July 1854.
  9. August-September 1854.
  10. October-December 1854.
  11. January-February 1855.
  12. March-April 1855.
  13. May-June 1855.
  14. July 1855.
  15. August 1855.
  16. September-October 1855.
  17. November 1855.
  18. December 1855.

Box 93:

Folder:

  1. January-February 1856.
  2. March-April 1856.
  3. May-June 1856.
  4. July-August 1856.
  5. September-October 1856.
  6. November-December 1856.
  7. 1856.
  8. January 1857.
  9. February 1857.
  10. March 1857.
  11. April 1857.
  12. May 1857.
  13. June-July 1857.
  14. August-September 1857.
  15. October-November 1857.
  16. December 1857.
  17. January-February 1858.
  18. March-April 1858.
  19. May-June 1858.
  20. July-August 1858.
  21. September-October 1858.
  22. November-December 1858.

Box 94:

Folder:

  1. January-August 1859.
  2. September-December 1859.
  3. January-August 1860.
  4. September-December 1860.
  5. 1860 (Canceled Checks).
  6. January-March 1861.
  7. April 1861.
  8. May 1861.
  9. June 1861.
  10. July 1861.
  11. August 1861.
  12. September 1861.
  13. October-November 1861.
  14. December 1861.
  15. 1861.
  16. 1861 (Canceled Checks).
  17. 1861 (Canceled Checks).
  18. 1861 (Canceled Checks).

Box 95:

Folder:

  1. January 1862.
  2. February 1862.
  3. March-April 1862.
  4. May-June 1862.
  5. July-August 1862.
  6. September-October 1862.
  7. November 1862.
  8. December 1862.
  9. 1862 (Canceled Checks).
  10. January 1863.
  11. February 1863.
  12. March 1863.
  13. April 1863.
  14. May-June 1863.
  15. July 1863.
  16. August 1863.
  17. September-October 1863.
  18. November 1863.
  19. December 1863.
  20. 1863 (Canceled Checks).

Box 96:

Folder:

  1. January-May 1864.
  2. June-August 1864.
  3. September-December 1864.
  4. 1864 (Canceled Checks).
  5. 1864 (Canceled Checks).
  6. January-June 1865.
  7. July-August 1865.
  8. September-December 1865.
  9. 1865 (Canceled Checks).
  10. 1865 (Canceled Checks).
  11. January-August 1866.
  12. September-December 1866.
  13. 1866 (Canceled Checks).
  14. 1867.
  15. January-July 1868.
  16. August-October 1868.
  17. November-December 1868.

Box 97:

Folder:

  1. 1869.
  2. January-December 1870.
  3. 1870.
  4. January-February 1871.
  5. March-April 1871.
  6. May-July 1871.
  7. August-September 1871.
  8. October-December 1871.
  9. 1872-1879.
  10. no date.
  11. no date.
  12. no date.

 

4. Financial and Legal Papers--Burned Material.

Box 98 :

Folder:

  1. 1811-1819.
  2. 1820-1824.
  3. 1825-1826.
  4. 1827-1829.
  5. 1830.
  6. 1831-1833.
  7. 1834-1835.
  8. 1836-1839.
  9. 1840-1842.
  10. January-June 1843.
  11. July-September 1843.
  12. October-December 1843.
  13. 1844.
  14. 1845.
  15. no date.
  16. no date.

 

MISCELLANEOUS AND PERSONAL--MISCELLANEOUS PERSONAL

Box 99 :

Folder:

  1. The Forum: Constitution and Minutes of Florida N.Y. Organization, October 17, 1817 - October 6, 1818.
  2. Reading Notes, no date.
  3. Phrenological Description of W. H. Seward.
  4. Carlin, John - Conversations with William Henry and Frances Seward, 1841.
  5. Passes and Passports.
  6. Memberships.
  7. Catalogue of Seward Library.
  8. Catalogue of Library of Seward House.
  9. Catalogue of Library of Seward House.
  10. Material relating to his trips around the world.
  11. Subscription Book: Travels Around the World.
  12. Copies of Materials related to Louisiana Purchase

Box 100:

Folder:

  1. William Henry Seward (photographs)
  2. William Henry Seward (copies of photographs)
  3. William Henry Seward (prints)
  4. William Henry Seward (photographs of prints)
  5. William Henry Seward (print of statue)
  6. William Henry Seward (photograph of bust)
  7. William Henry Seward (photographs of paintings)
  8. William Henry Seward and daughter, Fanny (copy of photograph)
  9. Frances A. Seward (photographs)
  10. Frances A. Seward (copies of photographs, prints, and copies of prints)
  11. Augustus Seward (photographs and photographs of paintings)
  12. Frederick William Seward (photograph and photograph of painting)
  13. William Henry Seward, Jr. (photographs and prints)
  14. Seward Family (photograph of silhouette)
  15. Seward Family (stereo views of family, home, graves)
  16. Samuel Sweezy Seward (photograph of painting)
  17. Clarence Armstrong Seward (photograph of painting)
  18. Non-family photographs (mainly carte de visites)
  19. Brigham Young and family (carte de visites)
  20. Horace Greeley (print)
  21. Seward Home (photographs, mainly 1970s)
  22. Places (Auburn, upstate N.Y., Russia; photographic copies)
  23. Electoral College, New York State, January 14, 1889 (photographs)

Box 100a

Folder:

  1. Staff officers serving with Brig. Gen. Seward (carte de visites)
  2. Group photograph, Alaska Exposition, 1909
  3. Second Lincoln Inauguration, March 4, 1865 (photograph)
  4. Dog train from Peribinia (?) (photograph)
  5. Seward Family History, written by B. J. Seward (ms.)
  6. Ms. page of Seward Family genealogy
  7. Calling cards of others
  8. Seward stationery samples, book plate, and W. H. Seward autograph calling cards
  9. First day covers, stamps, etc.

Box 100b

Panoramic view of Washington, DC photographed from the central tower of the Smithsonian Institution by Titian Ramsay Peale in 1863. 8 photographs.

 

MISCELLANEOUS PERSONAL--RESOLUTIONS AND MATERIALS

Box 101:

Folder:

  1. Review of Seward Speech (March 11, 1850?) from Lewiston, Me.
  2. Loyal States Governors Address to the President, September 22, 1862.
  3. Resolutions: Attempt on Seward; and Lincoln's Death, 1865.
  4. Resolution: Death of Lincoln and wounding of Seward, April 17, 1865.
  5. Memorial Caligraphic Manuscript in Greek on Death of Lincoln, 1865.
  6. Chamber of Commerce (N.Y.), March 3, 1870.
  7. Death of Seward: Resolutions, Obituaries, 1872.
  8. Memorials to Seward, 1872-1873.
  9. Memorial Poems, etc.
  10. A day with Governor Seward at Auburn, July 1870.

 

MISCELLANEOUS AND PERSONAL--SECONDARY MATERIAL RELATING TO SEWARD

Box 102: 1820-1860.

Box 103: 1861-1873.

Box 104: 1874-1917.

Bound Volumes:

    1. 33: Newspaper Clippings 1861-1863.
    2. 34: Index to Articles 1824-1836.
    3. 35: Scrapbook - Newspaper Clippings 1861-1864.
      1. Miller, Purchase of Alaska.

File drawer 33:

    Folder:
  1. Archer, Olin W. "From Auburn to Albany to Washington", Rochester Times Union, February 13, 1960.
  2. Bancroft, Francis. "Lincoln and Seward and Their Latest Biographers", Political Science Quarterly, December 1891.
  3. Bancroft, Frederic. "Review of Bancroft's Life of Seward", The Independent, May 17, 1900.
  4. Bancroft, Frederic. Correspondence written to James Ford Rhodes, 1892.
  5. Barrows, Isabel C. "Personal Reminiscences of William H. Seward", The Atlantic Monthly, March 1889
  6. Brauer, Kinley J. "An Interpretation of Seward's 'Foreign War Panacea '", New York History, April 1974.
  7. Brooks, Stewart M. "Thomas Brian Gunning, D.D.S. and The Day Seward Was Stabbed", TIC, October 1967.
  8. Bruce, H. Addington. "The Romance of American Expansion; Seventh Paper: William Henry Seward and the Alaska Cession", Outlook, July 25, 1908.
  9. Butterfield, Margaret. "The William Henry Seward Papers", The University of Rochester Library Bulletin, Autumn 1951.
  10. Carman, Harry J. "William Henry Seward in Retrospect", The University of Rochester Library Bulletin, Autumn 1952.
  11. Colgate Madisonensis. "Addresses Delivered on Lincoln Centennial February 12, 1909 - Abstract of Dr. Wm. H. Maynard's Address", February 16, 1909.
  12. Detmold, John Hunter. The Seward House (Souvenir Pamphlet), 1955.
  13. "The Diary of a Public Man; Unpublished Passages of the Secret History of the American Civil War", The North American Review, August 1879.
  14. Edson, Arthur. "Extra! 'Unknown' Lincoln Beats Seward for GOP Nomination", Rochester Times Union, May 18, 1960.
  15. Gerdts, William H. "'Heads or Tails': The Seward Portrait in City Hall, " The Art Quarterly, Spring 1958.
  16. Golder, Frank A. "The Purchase of Alaska", The American Historical Review, April 1920.
  17. Groat, Dr. Charles V. "Seward's Empire Plan Analyzed on Birth Date", Auburn Citizen Advertiser, May 16, 1964.
  18. Harvey, Charles M. "Seward, Empire-Builder and Seer", Putnam's Monthly, June 1907.
  19. Homer, Harlan Hoyt. "Lincoln Replies to William Henry Seward", Lincoln Herald, Spring and Summer, 1952.
  20. Johnson, Patricia C. "Stumping for Lincoln in 1860: Excerpts from the Diary of Fanny Seward", The University of Rochester Library Bulletin, Autumn 1960.
  21. Jones, Vincent S. "The Challenge of Photojournalism", Image - Journal of Photography and Motion Pictures of the George Eastman House, September 1957.
  22. Lamb, Martha J. "A Great Public Character, 18011872", Magazine of American History, May 1891.
  23. Lannie, Vincent Peter. "William Seward and Common School Education", History of Education Quarterly, September 1964.
  24. Lattimer, John K. "The Stabbing of Lincoln's Secretary of State on the Night the President Was Shot", Journal of the American Medical Association, April 12, 1965.
  25. Merrill, Arch. "Rochesterian Sparked Alaska Purchase", Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, January 18, 1959.
  26. Metcalf, George R. "Second Fiddle to Lincoln... Denied His Aim, Seward Subdued Hurt to Render Devoted Service In Cabinet Role", New York State And The Civil War, February 1962.
  27. Miner, Edward G. Seward's Diplomacy in Our Civil War, February 19, 1924.
  28. Monroe, James. "William H. Seward and the Foreign Affairs of the United States", The Oberlin Review, February 23, 1892.
  29. Newspaper Articles.
  30. Pease, Jane H. "Seward's Visit to Harriet Martineau", The University of Rochester Library Bulletin, Autumn 1951.
  31. Perkins, Dexter. "William Henry Seward", The University of Rochester Library Bulletin, Autumn 1951.
  32. Pratt, John W. "Governor Seward and the New York City School Controversy, 1840-1842: A Milestone in the Advance of Nonsectarian Public Education", New York History, October 196-.
  33. Reynolds, Robert L. "Seward's Wise Folly", American Heritage, December 1960.
  34. Ringle, William. "Seward Saw A New Alaska", Rochester Times Union, August 12, 1958.
  35. Ringle, William. "100 Years Ago in Rochester - Seward's 2 Electrifying Words", Rochester Times Union, October 23, 1958.
  36. Schild, Joan Lynn. "Seward's Gold Snuffbox", The University of Rochester Library Bulletin, Spring 1959.
  37. Schild, Joan Lynn. "Seward's Gold Snuffbox Given to UR", Rochester Times Union, May 6, 1959.
  38. Schoonover, Thomas. "Documents Concerning Lemuel Dale Evans' Plan to Keep Texas in the Union in 1861", East Texas Historical Journal, Spring 1974.
  39. Seese, Mildred Parker. "Florida and the Sewards", Middletown Times Herald, August 9, 1958.
  40. Seward, Frederick W. "Seward at Santa Cruz; Part IV", Godey's Magazine, July 1894.
  41. Seward, Olive Risley. "A Diplomatic Episode", Scribner's Magazine, November 1887.
  42. Seward, William Henry. "Be Up and Doing", Autographs for Freedom, 1853.
  43. Seward Family: Articles About.
  44. Seward House (Auburn): Articles About, Brochures, Etc.
  45. "Seward Memorial Erected 28 Years Ago With The Help of Tuxedo Park Admirer", Middletown Times Herald, August 9, 1958.
  46. Seward (William Henry) Papers: Articles About.
  47. Stackpole, Edouard A. "Mr. Lincoln's Flagship: The 'River Queen"', Yankee, February 1969.
  48. Suplee, Henry Harrison. "William Henry Seward-A Sketch", The Junior Munsey, November 1900.
  49. Taylor, John M. "In Support of Maximilian", Manuscripts, Spring 1965.
  50. Thomson, Helen. "Charlotte Cushman's Pariah Profession", Texas Quarterly, Autumn 1963.
  51. Vandersee, Charles. "Henry Adams Behind the Scenes: Civil War Letters to Frederick W. Seward", Bulletin of the New York Public Library, April 1967.
  52. Van Deusen, Glyndon. "Seward and Lincoln: The Washington Depot Episode", The University of Rochester Library Bulletin, Spring 1965.
  53. Van Deusen, Ruth. "Mrs. Seward in Washington", The University of Rochester Library Bulletin, Winter 1964.
  54. Verdi, Tullio Suzzara. "The Assassination of the Sewards", The Republic: A Monthly Magazine, July 1873.
  55. Vernon, Russell M. William H. Seward, September 2, 1952.
  56. Vishniac, Ethan T. Some Correspondence of an Early Jewish-American Leader; Mordecai Manual Noah's Letters To and From William Henry Seward and Thurlow Weed, 1975.




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SEWARD FAMILY--FRANCES ADELINE (MILLER) SEWARD

Box 105:

Folder:

  1. Calling Lists, no date.
  2. Commonplace Book, Mrs. Seward, no date; William Henry Seward, November 1834.
  3. Diary - Trip through Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Maryland, 1835.
  4. Woman's Mission, 1850.
  5. Miscellaneous Fragments in Mrs. Seward's Handwriting.
  6. Miscellaneous Fragments in Mrs. Seward's Handwriting.
  7. Reading Notes and Poetry Copy Book, no date.
  8. Arithmetic Practice Book Used by Mrs. Seward, November 1817; Arthmetic Practice Book Used by Mrs. Seward, no date.
  9. School atlas used by Mrs. Seward, 1816.
  10. Memorabilia.
  11. Scrapbook: Calling Cards.

 

SEWARD FAMILY--AUGUSTUS HENRY SEWARD

Box 106: Correspondence.

Folder:

  1. 1840-1859.
  2. 1860-1865.
  3. 1866-1869.
  4. 1870-1874.
  5. 1875.
  6. 1876.
  7. no date.

Box 107:

Folder:

  1. Bank Book, 1872-1873.
  2. Canceled Checks, 1866-1867.
  3. Class Reports, 1842-1847.
  4. Diary - Trip to Europe, 1850.
  5. Memorabilia.
  6. Financial Statements, 1874-1876.
  7. Financial Statements, 1867-1873.
  8. Income Tax - Receipts and Returns.
  9. Memorandum, 1868.
  10. Memorandum, 1868.
  11. Memorandum, 1862-1870.
  12. Memorandum, European Trip.
  13. Memorandum.
  14. Miscellaneous Financial and Business Papers.

Box 108:

Folder:

  1. Passport.
  2. Passport.
  3. Division of Personal Property.
  4. Receipts, 1850-1859.
  5. Receipts, 1860-1869.
  6. Receipts, 1870-1874.
  7. Receipts, 1875.
  8. Receipts, 1876-1879.
  9. U.S. Army - Journal of Points of Stations, 1858.
  10. U.S. Army - Points of Stations, 1852.

Box 109: U.S. Army - Pay Department.

Folder:

  1. Paymasters Records.
  2. Bank Book, 1870-1871.
  3. Bank Book, 1871-1873.
  4. Bank Book, 1873.
  5. Bank Book.
  6. Paymasters Records.
  7. Paymasters Records.
  8. Paymaster Records.
  9. Paymaster Records.
  10. Paymaster Records.
  11. Paymaster Records.
  12. Pay Tables.
  13. Pay Tables
  14. Regulations, 1861.

Box 110: U.S. Army - Paymaster Records Published Material.

Box 111: U.S. Army - Paymaster Records Published Material.

Box 112: U.S. Army - Paymaster Records Vouchers.

Box 113: U.S. Army - Paymaster Records Vouchers.

Bound Volumes:

36: Ledger: Cash Records, Inventory of Estate 1872-1876.

37: U.S. Army: Paymasters Records, Abstract of Payments 1861-1870.

38: U.S. Army: Paymasters Records, Abstract of Payments 1868-1871.

Package 2: Drawing of Erie Canal, West Point Library, Fortifications.

Package 3: U.S. Army - four drawings.

 

SEWARD FAMILY--FREDERICK WILLIAM SEWARD

Box 114: Accounts (2 Volumes). 1872-1891. 1892-1904.

Box 115: Articles and Speeches.

Folder:

  1. Alaska.
  2. Alaska.
  3. Albany Evening Journal Celebration 1905.
  4. American Diplomacy.
  5. American Diplomacy.
  6. An Arabian Night.
  7. Arbitration.
  8. The Castle of Windeck.
  9. Cayuga Song.
  10. A Colloquy with Shakespeare.
  11. The Dream of Oloffe Van Cortlandt.
  12. Empires and Republics.

Box 116: Articles and Speeches.

Folder:

  1. Faust.
  2. The Federal Republic.
  3. The Growth of the Republic.
  4. The Growth of the Republic.
  5. Hudson River Goblins.
  6. Hudson River Legends.
  7. Hudson River Song.
  8. Illustrated Stories and Ballads.
  9. International Arbitration Conference, Washington 1904.
  10. In Ireland.
  11. Lantern Journeys.
  12. Legends of the Rhine.
  13. The Light of Mercury.
  14. Long Island.
  15. Abraham Lincoln.
  16. The Mountain Laurel 1894.
  17. The Mystery of Life.
  18. Eliphalet Nott, September 1904.
  19. Miscellaneous.
  20. Presidential Campaign of 1904.
  21. Psi Upsilon.

Box 117:

Folder:

  1. Articles and Speeches - The Raven.
  2. Articles and Speeches - Recollections of William Henry Seward.
  3. Articles and Speeches - Reminiscences of Auburn.
  4. Articles and Speeches - Scottish Scenes and Songs.
  5. Articles and Speeches - William Henry Seward and M. Drouyn de L'Huys 1871.
  6. Articles and Speeches - Republican Party.
  7. Articles and Speeches - Society of the Cayugas, February 25, 1902.
  8. Articles and Speeches - Society of the Cayugas, February 25, 1902.
  9. Articles and-Speeches - Society of the Cayugas, February 1904.
  10. Articles and Speeches - Society of the Cayugas, April 25, 1905.
  11. Articles and Speeches - Society of the Cayugas.
  12. Articles and Speeches - Society of the Cayugas.
  13. Articles and Speeches - Taxation.
  14. Articles and Speeches - Union College.
  15. Articles and Speeches - Union College Alumni.
  16. Articles and Speeches - Union College Alumni Association, December 11, 1902.
  17. Articles and Speeches - Union College Alumni Banquet, December 1904.
  18. Articles and Speeches - Union College Alumni Dinner, June 27, 1899.
  19. Articles and Speeches - United States.
  20. Articles and Speeches - Venice, with the Poets.
  21. Articles and Speeches - Washington's Birthday.
  22. Articles and Speeches - The Young Graduate in Politics.

Box 118: William H. Seward Biography Notes.

Folder:

  1. 1801-1839.
  2. 1840-1849.
  3. 1850-1859.
  4. 1860-1866.
  5. 1867-1872.
  6. no date.
  7. miscellaneous.
  8. miscellaneous.

Box 119:

Folder:

  1. Canceled Checks, 1872-1873.
  2. Class Reports, 1846-1848.
  3. Copybook, no date.
  4. Correspondence, 1839-1871.
  5. Correspondence, January 1872 - October 1872.
  6. Correspondence, November 1872.
  7. Correspondence, December 1872.
  8. Correspondence, January 1873.
  9. Correspondence, February 1873 - March 1873.
  10. Correspondence, April 1873 - May 1873.
  11. Correspondence, June 1873 - September 1873.
  12. Correspondence, October 1873 - December 1873.
  13. Correspondence, 1874.
  14. Correspondence, 1875-1910, no date.
  15. Geography and History For Children, no date.
  16. Memorabilia.
  17. Miscellaneous.
  18. Receipts, 1872-1874.

 

SEWARD FAMILY--WILLIAM HENRY SEWARD, JR. (1839-1920)

Box 120: Articles and Speeches.

Folder:

  1. Adam Express Company.
  2. Alan, Son of Flahald.
  3. Alaska.
  4. G.W. Allen, November 7, 1913.
  5. Auburn Board of Trade, 1889.
  6. Auburn Board of Trade, 1889.
  7. Auburn Business Men's Association.
  8. Auburn City Club, November 29, 1896.
  9. Auburn City Club, May 1, 1906.
  10. Auburn City Hospital, September 28, 1894.
  11. Auburn City Hospital, June 4, 1899.
  12. Auburn City Hospital, June 4, 1901.
  13. Auburn City Hospital, May 21, 1902.
  14. Auburn City Hospital, June 19, 1907.
  15. Auburn City Hospital, April 19, 1910.
  16. Auburn City Hospital.
  17. Auburn City Hospital.
  18. Auburn Night School, February 18, 1892.
  19. Auburn Water Works Company.
  20. General Henry A. Barnum.
  21. Nelson Beardsley.
  22. The Boys in Blue, February 25, 1902.
  23. Boys' Oyster Supper, December 10, 1889.
  24. Boys' Oyster Supper, December 10, 1914.
  25. Boys' Oyster Supper.
  26. Reuben E. Burton Introduction, 1913.
  27. Business Mens Banquet, April 17, 1901.
  28. Cayuga Company Defense Committee, 1917.
  29. Cayuga Company Historical Society, 1886.
  30. Cayuga Company Historical Society, 1887.
  31. Cayuga Company Historical Society, 1888.
  32. Cayuga Company Historical Society, 1891.
  33. Cayuga Company Historical Society, 1903.
  34. Cayuga Company Historical Society,
  35. Cayuga Society Dinner, February 4, 1903.
  36. Childhood Recollections, 1903.
  37. Comrades of the 9th NY Artillery, 1888.
  38. Decoration Day, 1905.
  39. Dedication of GAR Rooms.
  40. Days and College Life of W.H. Seward, February 1889.
  41. Election of 1888.
  42. Election of 1900.
  43. Election of 1904.
  44. The Expediency of an Irish Parliament.

Box 121: Articles and Speeches.

Folder:

  1. Financial Crises.
  2. Flag Presentation to survivors of 9th New York Heavy Artillery at reunion in Port Byron, October 18, 1901.
  3. William Freeman, 1886.
  4. Free Trade Policy.
  5. GAR - Auburn, July 1892.
  6. GAR - Auburn, November 18, 1911.
  7. GAR - Canandaigua, May 30, 1894.
  8. GAR - Canandaigua, 1894.
  9. GAR - Clyde, October 19, 1895.
  10. GAR - Crocker and Seward Posts.
  11. GAR - Marion, August 8, 1907.
  12. GAR - Weedsport, October 19, 1894.
  13. GAR.
  14. Ulysses S. Grant.
  15. Hobbies, and Some Which We Have Ridden in 1886, February 8, 1887.
  16. Husbands.
  17. Introductions.
  18. Irish Question.
  19. Kossuth's Visit to Auburn.
  20. A Legal Episode of 1804.
  21. Abraham Lincoln, February 12, 1909.
  22. Abraham Lincoln, February 14, 1909.
  23. Abraham Lincoln.
  24. Loyal Legion, February 22, 1905.
  25. Mail Carriers.
  26. Military Organizations of Aurelius and Cayuga County.
  27. Elijah Miller Homestead.
  28. Miscellaneous and Incomplete.
  29. Monocacy Battlefield, July 19, 1904.
  30. Edwin B. Morgan (Wells College).
  31. 9th NY Artillery, 1890.
  32. 9th NY Artillery, 1896.
  33. 9th NY Artillery, October 19, 1899.
  34. 9th NY Artillery, September 12, 1902.
  35. 9th NY Artillery, 1903.
  36. 9th NY Artillery, August 3, 1910.
  37. 9th NY Artillery, 1912.
  38. 9th NY Artillery.
  39. 9th NY Artillery.
  40. Onondaga Historical Society, 1907.
  41. David M. Osborne.
  42. Our Hobbies, February 1887.
  43. Owasco Lake, 1886.

Box 122: Articles and Speeches.

Folder:

  1. Present Manufacturing System - Its Disadvantages.
  2. The Recuperative Power of the American Republic.
  3. Republican Club of Auburn, 1907.
  4. Republican Club of City of New York.
  5. Republicans in New York.
  6. Seattle Banquet for General Seward, September 10, 1909.
  7. Seward, William Henry 1801-1872.
  8. Seward, William Henry 1839-1920.
  9. Seward School, December 19, 1911.
  10. Sixth Corps, September 1902?
  11. Sixth Corps, December 1902.
  12. Sixth Corps.
  13. Sixth Corps. Reunion.
  14. Sixth Corps, Third Division.
  15. Benjamin Snow, June 26, 1901.
  16. Soldiers Monument, December 1902.
  17. Veterans of Southern Cayuga, 1886.
  18. Veterans Soldiers Union, 1904.
  19. Wells College.
  20. What Would an Irish Parliament do for Ireland.
  21. William G. Wise (death).
  22. Women's Relief Corps, January 31, 1903.

Box 123: Correspondence:

Folder:

  1. 1840-1856.
  2. January 1857-June 1857.
  3. July 1857-December 1857.
  4. January 1858-June 1858.
  5. July 1858-December 1858.
  6. January 1859-March 1859.
  7. April 1859-July 1859.
  8. August 1859-October 1859.
  9. November 1859-December 1859.
  10. 1860. 1861-1863.
  11. January 1864-June 1864.
  12. July 1864-December 1864.
  13. 1865-1866.
  14. January 1867-June 1867.
  15. July 1867-December 1867.
  16. 1868-1869.

Box 124: Correspondence:

Folder:

  1. 1870-1879.
  2. 1880-1884.
  3. 1885-1886.
  4. 1887-1888.
  5. January 1889-February 1889.
  6. March 1889-June 1889.
  7. July 1889-October 1889.
  8. November 1889-December 1889.
  9. January 1890-June 1890.
  10. July 1890-December 1890.
  11. 1891.
  12. 1892-1897.

Box 125: Correspondence:

Folder:

  1. 1898.
  2. 1899.
  3. 1900.
  4. 1901-1908.
  5. 1909.
  6. 1910-1916.
  7. 1917-1921.
  8. no date.

Box 126: Merchants Union Express Company:

Folder:

  1. 1866-June 1867.
  2. July 1867-December 1867.
  3. 1867.
  4. 1867.
  5. 1868.
  6. 1868.
  7. no date.
  8. Memoranda.

Box 127:

Folder:

  1. Military Orders, 1863-1865.
  2. Miscellaneous Military Papers.
  3. Ninth NY Artillery, Lists of Casualties, 1864.
  4. Ninth NY Artillery, Lists of Officers.
  5. Ordinance Papers, 1862.
  6. Ordinance Papers, 1862-1864.
  7. Ordinance Papers, 1864.
  8. Ordinance Papers, 1865.
  9. Quartermaster Property Papers, 1862-1864.
  10. Watson, George R.

Box 128:

Folder:

  1. Accounts (Seward and MacDougall) 1860-1864.
  2. Accounts (Ordinance Stores) 1862-1864.
  3. Accounts (Letters of Credit) 1873-1878.
  4. Accounts (Cash Book) November 1878-July 1880.
  5. Accounts (Cash Book) January 1890-December 1893.
  6. Accounts (Profits and Loss) 1873-1905.
  7. Accounts (Seward and Company Bankers) 1898-1906.
  8. Accounts (Real Estate Holdings).
  9. American Express Company.
  10. Auburn City Club.
  11. Auburn City Hospital, General Seward's Retirement.
  12. Biographical Material.
  13. Colby M. Chester, rear admiral, June 4, 1917.
  14. Contracts.

Box 129:

Folder:

  1. Diary of Seattle Excursion, September 1909.
  2. Diary (Trip to Great Britain and Europe) 1887.
  3. Financial Statements (Bills and Receipts).
  4. Memorabilia I.
  5. Memorabilia II.
  6. Memorabilia III.

Box 130: Memoranda:

Folder:

  1. Memorandum and Cash Accounts, 1863.
  2. 1864-1865.
  3. 1867.
  4. 1867-1868.
  5. Memorandum and Addresses, 1883-1884.
  6. 1890.
  7. Memorandum and Addresses, 1905-1907.
  8. Memorandum and Addresses, 1908-1910.
  9. 1913-1914.
  10. no date.
  11. 1872-1892.
  12. Memorandum (Steamer Moselle) 1891-1892.
  13. Memorandum and Addresses, 1892.
  14. Memorandum and Addresses, 1892-1893.
  15. Memorandum (Steamer Moselle) 1892-1894.
  16. Memorandum and Addresses, 1892-1894.
  17. Memorandum and Addresses, 1895-1896.
  18. 1896-1897.
  19. Memorandum and Addresses, 1898-1900.
  20. 1900-1902.
  21. 1903-1905.
  22. Memorandum (Steamer Janet) 1894-1901.

Box 131:

Folder:

  1. Miscellaneous.
  2. Northern Pacific Railroad Inspection Trip, 1900.
  3. Passports - June 17, 1885 and April 15, 1887.
  4. Pension Papers.
  5. Personal Property Inventory.
  6. Railroad and Express Passes.
  7. Scrapbook and Copybook of humorous stories and wise sayings.
  8. Wedding of Seward and Janet M. Watson, June 27, 1860.

Bound Volumes:

39: Correspondence, March 1875 - January 1881.

40: Correspondence, January 1881-December 1883.

41: Correspondence, December 1883 - April 1887.

42: Correspondence, May 1887 - December 1889.

43: Correspondence, February 1897 - September 1900.

44: Correspondence, September 1900 - June 1903.

45: Correspondence, July 1903 - May 1907.

46: Correspondence, June 1907 - October 1909.

47: Accounts, 1889-1892.

48: Auburn Water Works, March 1863 - August 1894.

49: Cash Book, July 1880 - January 1890.

50: Check Book, January 1871 - July 1873.

 

SEWARD FAMILY--JANET McNEIL (WATSON) SEWARD

Box 132:

Folder:

  1. Ancestry: Winslow Family.
  2. Cause of the Decline of the Power of the Stuarts, 1885.
  3. Delaware and Pennsylvania, Paper read January 23, 1890.
  4. Durham, Papercread January 6, 1887.
  5. The English Lake District, and Homes of Its Authors, Paper read January 6, 1887 and April 7, 1888.
  6. Glimpses of Social Life in the Nineteenth Century, Paper read May 1, 1901.
  7. Thomas Babington Macaulay, Paper read March 15, 1888.
  8. Memorabilia.
  9. Memorial Window - Presented to Central Presbyterian Church, Auburn.
  10. Miscellaneous Papers.
  11. Personal Experiences of the Civil War - 4 drafts - Paper read 1898 and 1903.
  12. Spanish Jesuits, Paper read February 28, 1889.
  13. Tombstone.
  14. Mrs. Margaret Standart Watson.
  15. Wells College, May 29, 1899.
  16. Diaries, 1870, 1871
  17. Memorandum books, n.d.
  18. Scrapbook
  19. Scrapbook, calling cards


SEWARD FAMILY--FRANCES (FANNY) ADELINE SEWARD

Box 133:

Folder:

  1. Copybooks - History.
  2. Copybooks - Literary Excerpts.
  3. Miscellaneous.
  4. Writings - A Thought. (n.d.)
  5. Writings - Kate's Thoughts. (n.d.)
  6. Writings - [Laura].
  7. Writings - [Laura]. (1862)
  8. Writings - Mabel Gray. (n.d.)
  9. Writings - [Story of Love]. (March 1865-September 1865)
  10. Writings - Tried and True, Chapters II-IV. (Begun Novemer 29, 1862)
  11. Writings - Tried and True, Chapters V-VIII.
  12. Writings - Tried and True, Chapters IX-XIII.
  13. Writings - Tried and True, Chapters XIV-XVII.
  14. Writings - Tried and True, Chapters XVIII-XX.
  15. Writings - Tried and True, Chapters XXI-XXIII.
  16. Writings - Tried and True, Chapters XXIV-XXIX. (Finished June 28th, 1864)

Box 134:

Folder:

  1. Diary - December 25, 1858 - December 1859.
  2. Diary - 1860.
  3. Diary - December 25, 1860 - April 4, 1862.
  4. Diary - April 5, 1862 - May 1, 1863.
  5. Diary - 1863-1865.

Box 135:

Folder:

  1. Diary - January 1, 1866 - October 7, 1866.
  2. Diary - Transcript 1858-1859.
  3. Diary - Transcipt by J.R. Slater 1861.
  4. Diary - Transcript of April 9-10, 1865.
  5. Poetry written by Fanny Seward, 1861-1862.
  6. American Heritage (October 1959), Article and Transcript of April 1865 Diary - Assassination Try.
  7. Upstate (Democrat and Chronicle), Article, October 24, 1971, The Diary of Fanny Seward...

 

SEWARD FAMILY--OLIVE RISLEY SEWARD

Box 136: Accounts. Miscellaneous Papers.

 

SEWARD FAMILY--OTHER MEMBERS OF THE FAMILY

1. John Seward (Grandfather) 1730-1797.

Box 137:

Folder:

  1. Letters from Col. Seward to his wife, Mary, dated 1776-1777.


2: Samuel Sweezy Seward (Father) 1768-1849.

Box 137:

  1. Business 1818-1842.
  2. Business 1843.
  3. Business 1844-1846.
  4. Business 1847-1849.
  5. Business 1850-1859.
  6. Business n.d.
  7. Correspondence 1839-1854.
  8. Will 1848.


3. Edwin Polydore Seward (Brother).

Box 137:

  1. Miscellaneous.


4. George Frederick Seward 1840-1910.

Box 137:

  1. Miscellaneous.


5. Rev. Augustus Seward.

Box 137:

    1. Miscellaneous.

     

SEWARD FAMILY--WILLAIM HENRY SEWARD III (1864-1951)
(Grandson)

Box 138:

Folder:

  1. Correspondence 1890-1893.
  2. School Compositions.
  3. School Compositions.
  4. Diary - Hunting Trip, 1891.
  5. School Compositions.

Bound Volumes:

51: Correspondence, February 1891 - January 1894.

52: Law Course Notebook (Yale) n.d.

53: Scrapbook (Mrs. Anna D. (Myers) Seward).

54: Yale Daily News September 1887 - June 1888.




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OTHER MATERIALS--OVERSIZE PRINTS AND PHOTOGRAPHS

William Henry Seward

General William Henry Seward

Frederick William Seward

 

OTHER MATERIALS--FRAMED PRINTS AND PHOTOGRAPHS

  1. Copy of painting of Frances (Fanny) Adeline Seward, by Emanuel Leutzw in 1867, a year after her death at the age of twenty-one.
  2. Enlargement of photograph of Mrs. Frances Adeline (Miller) Seward, sitting in the garden of Auburn, New York, home. (2 copies)
  3. Photographs of the Seward House in Auburn. (2 views)
  4. Enlargement of photograph of William Henry Seward (1839-1920).
  5. Abraham Lincoln, Currier and Ives print.
  6. Mezzo-relievo bust of William Henry Seward by Walter G. Robinson.
  7. William Henry Seward (1801-1872), lithograph portrait by L. Grozelier, published by C.H. Brainard of Boston, 1855.
  8. Photograph of painting, "Purchase of Alaska," by Emanuel Leutze.
  9. Steel engraving of painting of "The First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation before the Cabinet." Painted by F.B. Carpenter, engraved by A.H. Ritchie.
  10. Silhouette of the Miller and Seward families of Auburn, c. 1833.
  11. Copy of painting of Frances (Fanny) Adeline Seward, by Emanuel Leutze, in 1867.
  12. Portrait of William Henry Seward (1801-1872), oil painting.
  13. Portrait of William Henry Seward (1801-1872), oil painting.

 

OTHER MATERIALS--MUSEUM PIECES

  1. Alaska Flag (modern).
  2. One gold cigar case elaborately engraved with scenes of Alaska (Sitka & Eskimo killing moose), words "Seward", "Alaska", and "California", set with enameled clasp and faceted crystal. Made by J.W. Tucker and Co., San Francisco. Presented by Pioneer Society of California, 1869. (14 1/2cm. x 8 1/2cm., 3cm. high)
  3. Medal Awarded George E. Robinson by Act-of Congress, March 1, 1871 for heroic conduct April 14, 1865, in saving life of William Henry Seward.
  4. Three sterling silver plates from formal dinner service used by Seward family. Made by Tiffany, New York. Seward monogram +1867. (25cm. diameter)
  5. Two coin silver ewers or pitchers used by Seward family in Washington, D.C., c1860-1869. Made by M.W. Gait & Brothers, Williamsburg, Virginia, c1830. Handles have heads of beasts and intertwined detail. (34cm. high, 18cm. widest diameter)
  6. One gold and enamel snuff box, set with pink stones (quartz or enamel?) given to Seward by a lady. (3cm. x 9 1/2cm. x 2 1\2cm. high) Box labeled Lauerout, Palais Royale, 54-55 (Paris).
  7. Medal - Seward candidacy for governor, 1834.
  8. Souvenir Spoon: Seward Homestead, Auburn, New York.



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