Part 63 (1/2)

Seward typically rose: Frederick W. Seward, William H. Seward: An Autobiography from 1801 to 1834, with a Memoir of His Life, and Selections from His Letters, 18311846 (New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1877), p. 658 [hereafter Seward, An Autobiography]; Frederick W. Seward, Seward at Was.h.i.+ngton, as Senator and Secretary of State. A Memoir of His Life, with Selections from His Letters, 18461861 (New York: Derby & Miller, 1891), p. 203.

description of Seward mansion: Interview with Betty Mae Lewis, curator of Seward House, Auburn, N.Y., 1999 [hereafter Lewis interview]; The Seward House (Auburn, N.Y.: The Foundation Historical a.s.sociation, 1955); NYH, August 27, 1860.

Seward's interest in gardening: Seward, An Autobiography, pp. 368, 65758.

”a lover's interest”: WHS to [TW?], April 12, 1835, in ibid., p. 257.

”came in to the table...that was exhausted”: Ibid., pp. 658, 461, 481; Lewis interview.

”The cannoneers...joyful news”: Auburn Democrat, reprinted in the Atlas and Argus, Albany, N.Y., May 28, 1860.

weather conditions: WHS to FAS, December 17, 1834, reel 112, Seward Papers; Patricia C. Johnson, ”Sensitivity and Civil War: The Selected Diaries and Papers, 18581866, of Frances Adeline [f.a.n.n.y] Seward.” Ph.D. diss, University of Rochester, 1963, pp. 12.

Visitors had come...Weedsport to the north: Henry B. Stanton, Random Recollections, 3rd edn. (New York: Harper & Bros., 1887), p. 215.

Local restaurants had stocked up: NYH, August 27, 1860; Auburn Democrat, reprinted in the Atlas and Argus, Albany, N.Y., May 28, 1860.

the vigorous senator: See Glyndon G. Van Deusen, William Henry Seward (New York: Oxford University Press, 1967), pp. 25557, 263.

New York Herald...”dauntless and intrepid”: NYH, August 27, 1860.

slender frame...”most glorious original”: Henry Adams to Charles Francis Adams, Jr., December 9, 1860, in Letters of Henry Adams (18581891), Vol. I., ed. Worthington Chauncey Ford (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1930), p. 63.

physical description of Seward: John M. Taylor, William Henry Seward: Lincoln's Right Hand (New York: HarperCollins, 1991), p. 17; Burton J. Hendrick, Lincoln's War Cabinet (Boston, Little, Brown, 1946), p. 8; Johnson, ”Sensitivity and Civil War,” pp. 11, 5657; Frederic Bancroft, The Life of William H. Seward, Vol. I (New York: Harper & Bros., 1899; Gloucester, Ma.s.s.: Peter Smith, 1967), p. 184.

”school-boy elasticity...slas.h.i.+ng swagger”: Murat Halstead, Three Against Lincoln: Murat Halstead Reports the Caucuses of 1860, ed. William B. Hesseltine (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1960), p. 120.

Every room...by Was.h.i.+ngton Irving: Lewis interview; The Seward House, pp. 56, 12, 16, 23, 26; Seward, An Autobiography, pp. 440, 677; Susan Sutton Smith, ”Mr. Seward's Home,” University of Rochester Library Bulletin 31 (Autumn 1978), pp. 6993.

”the honor in question...of its principles”: National Intelligencer, Was.h.i.+ngton, D.C., May 19, 1860.

”No press has opposed...leaders.h.i.+p of the man”: Atlas and Argus, Albany, N.Y., May 19, 1860.

valedictory speech to the Senate: Bancroft, The Life of William H. Seward, Vol. I, p. 522; Van Deusen, William Henry Seward, p. 222; entry for May 13, 1860, Diary of Charles Francis Adams, reel 75, microfilms of The Adams Papers owned by the Adams Ma.n.u.script Trust and deposited in the Ma.s.sachusetts Historical Society, Part I (Boston: Ma.s.sachusetts Historical Society, 1954) [hereafter Charles Francis Adams diary].

love of Auburn: Seward, An Autobiography, p. 744.

”free to act...to die”: Auburn Journal, December 31, 1859, reprinted in Albany Evening Journal, Albany, N.Y., January 3, 1860.

Auburn in the 1860s: Johnson, ”Sensitivity and Civil War,” pp. 23.

Seward had arrived...Cayuga County: Van Deusen, William Henry Seward, pp. 67.

description of Frances: Ibid., p. 10; Taylor, William Henry Seward, pp. 1819.

death of Cornelia: Van Deusen, William Henry Seward, p. 37.

slow to take up the Republican banner: Clarence Edward Macartney, Lincoln and His Cabinet (New York and London: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1931), pp. 9495.

”would inspire a cow...language”: Henry Adams to Charles Francis Adams, Jr., December 9, 1860, Letters of Henry Adams (18581891), Vol. I, p. 62.