Part 72 (1/2)
”alienation...but without affection”: WHS to Albert Tracy, quoted in Seward to FAS, December 29, 1834, reel 112, Seward Papers.
If Seward believed: WHS to TW, January 18, 1835, in Seward, An Autobiography, p. 249; WHS to unknown recipient, June 1, 1836, in ibid., p. 300.
”It is seldom...periods of seclusion”: WHS to Alvah Hunt, January 25, 1843, quoted in Van Deusen, William Henry Seward, p. 99.
”keep me informed...as a politician”: WHS to TW, January 1835, in Seward, An Autobiography, p. 249.
family expedition to the South: Taylor, William Henry Seward, p. 37; Seward, Reminiscences of a War-Time Statesman and Diplomat, p. 9.
”When I travel...and reflection”: WHS to Albert H. Tracy, June 23, 1831, Tracy Papers.
their letters home extolled: Seward, An Autobiography, pp. 27273; Seward, Reminiscences of a War-Time Statesman and Diplomat, pp. 1213.
”teemed with...reform of mankind”: Introduction to ”The Conflict of Cultures,” in The Causes of the Civil War, 3rd edn., ed. Kenneth M. Stampp (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1959; New York: Touchstone Books, 1991), p. 201.
a world virtually unchanged: James M. McPherson, ”Modernization and Sectionalism,” in ibid., p. 104.
”We no longer pa.s.sed...of slaves”: Entry for June 12, 1835, WHS journal, quoted in Seward, An Autobiography, p. 267.
”a waste...decaying habitation”: Entry for June 12, 1835, WHS journal, in ibid., p. 267.
”How deeply...decayed as Virginia”: WHS to Albert H. Tracy, June 25, 1835, Tracy Papers.
Slavery trapped...a sizable middle cla.s.s: McPherson, ”Modernization and Sectionalism,” in The Causes of the Civil War, ed. Stampp, pp. 10405.
”We are told that...this injured race”: FAS to LW, quoted in Seward, An Autobiography, p. 272.
”turning the ponderous”...any of them again: Seward, Reminiscences of a War-Time Statesman and Diplomat, pp. 1415.
”Ten naked little boys...themselves to sleep”: Seward, An Autobiography, p. 271.
”Sick of slavery and the South”: Entry for June 13, 1835, FAS, ”Diary of Trip through Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Maryland, 1835,” reel 197, Seward Papers.
”the evil effects...marring everything”: Entry of June 17, 1835, FAS, ”Diary of Trip through Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Maryland, 1835,” reel 197, Seward Papers.
”turned their horses'...homeward”: Seward, An Autobiography, p. 272.
indelible images...social conscience: Entry for June 15, 1835, WHS journal in Seward, An Autobiography, p. 268; FAS to LW, January 15, 1853, reel 119, Seward Papers; WHS, ”Speech in Cleveland, Ohio on the Election of 1848,” Works of William H. Seward, Vol. III, pp. 29596.
a lucrative opportunity...Seward did not hesitate: Van Deusen, William Henry Seward, pp. 3839.
”more beautiful”...invited Weed's seventeen-year-old daughter: WHS to Harriet Weed, September 8, 1836, Thurlow Weed Papers, Department of Rare Books & Special Collections, University of Rochester Library, Rochester, N.Y. [hereafter Weed Papers].
”there are a thousand...upon them”: WHS to FAS, December 21, 1836, in Seward, An Autobiography, p. 321.
”so vividly remembered...a rare event”: Seward, An Autobiography, p. 162.
death of Cornelia from smallpox: Seward, An Autobiography, p. 323.
”did not think it...from their Grandpa”: FAS to Harriet Weed, February 9, 1837, Weed Papers.