Olive Risley Seward

[Linda Anderson]

Thanks Linda, that was interesting...unusual ending of a fascinating life. Have you read his autobiography or his travel book?

I haven't read the travel book Seward wrote with Olive. I have read the parts of Seward's "autobiography" that pertain to the assassination and its immediate aftereffects on the Seward family. According to Seward:Lincoln's Indispensible Man, Seward "had only reached 1834 in his narrative when Olive arrived, after a long visit with her father and family, and he suspended work on the memoir in order to work with Olive on their joint travel book." Fred completed Seward's autobiography after Seward died.

You can find these books online at Google Books or archive.org.