Seward Family Digital Archive

[Linda Anderson]

(06-19-2016 02:05 AM)Carolyn Mitchell Wrote:  You can also follow the Seward Family Digital Archive on Twitter: https://twitter.com/SewardFamDigArc

Thank you, Carolyn! The June 21st tweet contains a link to a fascinating 1831 letter from William to Frances describing Aaron Burr.

"Do I actually
grasp the hand which directed only too
successfully the fatal ball which laid low
in the person of his competitor the glory of
his country Alexander Hamilton - Oh miserable
comment upon unchastined ambition! How bare
how sordid must be that love of life which
can make thee content unhappy man to drag
a dishonored and degraded existant among
a generation which knows thee only by the history of thy
crimes and judges thee without allowing the
merit of the extenuation of passion!"

Also, the Seward Archive recently received another grant.

"The Seward Family Archive, a digital humanities project that’s a collaboration between the Department of History and the River Campus Libraries, has been awarded a two-year grant totaling over $97,000 from the National Archives Literacy and Engagement with Historical Records Program."

University of Rochester News Center - June 16, 2016

http://www.rochester.edu/newscenter/sewa...ves-grant/