Part 71 (1/2)
Seward and Weed meet: See ibid., pp. 5556; Thurlow Weed, Autobiography of Thurlow Weed, ed. Harriet A. Weed (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1883), p. 139.
”he printed...his own hand”: Seward, An Autobiography, p. 56.
details of Weed's early life: Autobiography of Thurlow Weed, ed. Weed; Thurlow Weed Barnes, Memoir of Thurlow Weed (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1884).
He had walked miles: Autobiography of Thurlow Weed, ed. Weed, pp. 1213.
”a politician who sees...him forever”: Barnes, Memoir of Thurlow Weed, pp. 2627.
Such measures...”extend its dominion”: Seward, An Autobiography, p. 54.
the Albany Evening Journal: Autobiography of Thurlow Weed, ed. Weed, pp. 36062.
Weed engineered...from the seventh district: Seward, An Autobiography, p. 80.
the youngest member to enter: Taylor, William Henry Seward, p. 24.
Albany still a small town: John J. McEneny, Albany: Capital City on the Hudson (Sun Valley, Calif.: American Historical Press, 1998), p. 76.
description of Albany: ”Albany Fifty Years Ago,” Harper's New Monthly Magazine 14 (March 1857), pp. 45163.
”first steam-powered...web of tracks”: McEneny, Albany, pp. 16 (quote), 98.
The legislature...Bemont's Hotel: Seward, An Autobiography, pp. 8081; Frederick W. Seward, Reminiscences of a War-Time Statesman and Diplomat, 18301915 (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1916), p. 2; Taylor, William Henry Seward, p. 24.
Seward attends alone: Seward, An Autobiography, p. 80.
”Weed is...warmth of feeling”: WHS to FAS, January 12, 1831, in ibid., p. 166.
”one of the greatest...except politics”: WHS to FAS, February 6, 1831, in ibid., pp. 17980.
Weed and Seward's mutual interests: Van Deusen, William Henry Seward, p. 17; Taylor, William Henry Seward, p. 25.
”My room is a thoroughfare”: WHS to FAS, February 16, 1831, in Seward, An Autobiography, p. 182.
Albert Haller Tracy: Van Deusen, William Henry Seward, p. 17; ”Tracy, Albert Haller, 17931859,” Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, bioguide.congress.gov (accessed December 2003).
”crushed...pa.s.ses in his mind”: FAS to LW, March 12, 1832, reel 118, Seward Papers.
”He and Henry...love with each other”: FAS to LW, March 4, 1832, reel 118, Seward Papers.
”It shames my...since I left Albany”: Albert H. Tracy to WHS, February 7, 1831, reel 1, Seward Papers.
Seward at first reciprocated: FAS to LW, March 12, 1832, reel 118, Seward Papers.
a ”rapturous joy...I possessed”: WHS to Albert H. Tracy, February 11, 1831, typescript copy, Albert Haller Tracy Papers, New York State Library, Albany, New York [hereafter Tracy Papers].
”My feelings...divided with many”: Albert H. Tracy to WHS, June 12, 1832, reel 1, Seward Papers.
”Weed has never...account for it”: FAS to LW, March [?] 1832, reel 118, Seward Papers (quote); FAS to LW, April 5, 1832, reel 118, Seward Papers.