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[Linda Anderson]

(01-19-2015 05:49 PM)L Verge Wrote:  

(01-19-2015 05:38 PM)Eva Elisabeth Wrote:  If these letters had been destroyed, how is it known they were affectionate (not that I consider this not possible or not likely)? Was there any "witness" who read them and stated this, or is that just an assumption?

If those letters were of a particularly affectionate nature, I'd bet my bottom dollar that's why they were culled and destroyed from the packet before being turned over for public consumption...

Sorry, I misunderstood what letters Eva was talking about. Van Deusen was talking about letters revealing what Sewards' sons really thought of Olive and her father that he had heard on the "best authority" "were destroyed by relatives before the Seward Papers were given to the University of Rochester." Like Laurie, I imagine that other letters may have been destroyed as well.