Seward Family Project

[Linda Anderson]

(02-15-2014 09:10 AM)Joe Di Cola Wrote:  Linda,

It would be wonderful if Fanny's diary could someday be published.

Joe

Joe,

I agree but in the meantime we can read Particia Carley Johnson's dissertation, Sensitivity and Civil War: The Selected Diaries and Papers of Frances Adeline (Fanny) Seward.

Rob Wick posted in another thread that the dissertation is available through Proquest.

http://dissexpress.umi.com/dxweb/search.html

Johnson's supervisor for her thesis was Professor Glyndon G. Van Deusen who wrote a biography of Seward entitled William Henry Seward. Van Deusen was instrumental in the University of Rochester obtaining the Seward Papers rather than the Library of Congress (or Yale University which also wanted them).

http://www.lib.rochester.edu/index.cfm?PAGE=3453

http://www.lib.rochester.edu/index.cfm?PAGE=3451

Johnson's footnotes for her dissertation are amazing. She footnotes in great detail every person, place or thing that Fanny mentions in her diary. There are almost 2,000 footnotes.

The first part of the dissertation is called "Fanny Seward and Her Times" which includes biographical sketches of the Seward family.