Seward Project

[Linda Anderson]

The University of Rochester is digitizing the Seward Papers. I sent them an email asking when the Papers will be made available to the public.

"A collection spanning the years 1730 to 1917—public, private, and family correspondence of Seward and his family members, files and records from his long political career as governor and secretary, speeches, diaries, and other documents—was given to Rochester by Seward’s son, William Henry Seward III between 1945 and 1951. Now students of Thomas Slaughter, the Arthur R. Miller Professor of History, are bringing those papers into the digital age, transcribing and coding them to make them accessible to scholars, students, and curious readers anywhere in the world. The class—a two-course sequence, The Seward Family’s Civil War and The Seward Family in Peace and in War—meets in the Libraries’ Department of Rare Books and Special Collections. Designed for undergraduate and graduate students, the course combines traditional efforts of historians—among them, transcribing, editing, and annotating primary historical documents—with intellectual tasks for the digital age: creating and implementing the Seward Project, a website collection of digitized Seward family photos and documents." - Libraries Unbound

http://www.rochester.edu/pr/Review/V75N4...aries.html

Here's an interesting article on Seward's library at the Seward House.

http://davidjgary.com/2013/03/18/the-lib...-h-seward/