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Letters and note from William Henry Seward and Horatio Seymour

Collection — manuscript box: 21 - folder 1

Identifier: 112m

Scope and content

Short, routine letters from William Henry Seward and Horatio Seymour. The letter from Seymour (1871), addressed to Nahum Capen, makes a brief comment on the Democratic Party. Also, a note from Seward paying his compliments and arranging to call on the recipient; and an undated letter from W.L. Money, conveying some other autographs he had detached from his files to his fellow autograph collector W.B. Sprague.

Dates

1858-1871.

Creator

Money, W. L. (Collector, Person)
Seward, William H. (William Henry), 1801-1872. (Person)
Seymour, Horatio, 1810-1886. (Person)
Capen, Nahum, 1804-1886. (Person)

Language of Material

In English.

Biographical / Historical

William Henry Seward was Governor of New York from 1839-1842, and subsequently Secretary of State during the Lincoln administration; Horatio Seymour was Governor of New York from 1863-1865.