Seward Family Project

[Linda Anderson]

An update on the Seward Family Project was published Feb. 14, 2014 on the University of Rochester's website.

http://www.rochester.edu/news/show.php?id=8142

"A $360,000 grant from the Fred L. Emerson Foundation will help the University of Rochester digitize the Seward Family Archive, one of the most comprehensive and extensive firsthand accounts of 19th-century American political and social life...

"In the next three years, the project collaborators expect to digitize almost half of the Seward Family Collection and to update the archive's finding aid...

"A notable example of the collection's value is found in the papers of Seward's daughter, Fanny. Along with her library, which is preserved at the Seward House Museum in Auburn, N.Y., her diaries and correspondence provide the best documentation of the life of a Victorian American teenage girl that survives anywhere. "Fanny's ambitions to be a writer, her experiences in Washington, D.C., where she had friendships with a famous actress and with children and spouses of the leading politicians of the day, and her firsthand experience of major historical events are documented only in our collection," says Slaughter."