"alienation...but without affection": WHS to Albert Tracy, quoted in Seward to FAS, December 29, 1834, reel 112, Seward Papers.
If Seward believed: WHS to TW, January 18, 1835, in Seward, An Autobiography, p. 249; WHS to unknown recipient, June 1, 1836, in ibid., p. 300.
"It is seldom...periods of seclusion": WHS to Alvah Hunt, January 25, 1843, quoted in Van Deusen, William Henry Seward, p. 99.
"keep me informed...as a politician": WHS to TW, January 1835, in Seward, An Autobiography, p. 249.
family expedition to the South: Taylor, William Henry Seward, p. 37; Seward, Reminiscences of a War-Time Statesman and Diplomat, p. 9.
"When I travel...and reflection": WHS to Albert H. Tracy, June 23, 1831, Tracy Papers.
their letters home extolled: Seward, An Autobiography, pp. 27273; Seward, Reminiscences of a War-Time Statesman and Diplomat, pp. 1213.
"teemed with...reform of mankind": Introduction to "The Conflict of Cultures," in The Causes of the Civil War, 3rd edn., ed. Kenneth M. Stampp (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1959; New York: Touchstone Books, 1991), p. 201.
a world virtually unchanged: James M. McPherson, "Modernization and Sectionalism," in ibid., p. 104.
"We no longer pa.s.sed...of slaves": Entry for June 12, 1835, WHS journal, quoted in Seward, An Autobiography, p. 267.
"a waste...decaying habitation": Entry for June 12, 1835, WHS journal, in ibid., p. 267.
"How deeply...decayed as Virginia": WHS to Albert H. Tracy, June 25, 1835, Tracy Papers.
Slavery trapped...a sizable middle cla.s.s: McPherson, "Modernization and Sectionalism," in The Causes of the Civil War, ed. Stampp, pp. 10405.
"We are told that...this injured race": FAS to LW, quoted in Seward, An Autobiography, p. 272.
"turning the ponderous"...any of them again: Seward, Reminiscences of a War-Time Statesman and Diplomat, pp. 1415.
"Ten naked little boys...themselves to sleep": Seward, An Autobiography, p. 271.
"Sick of slavery and the South": Entry for June 13, 1835, FAS, "Diary of Trip through Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Maryland, 1835," reel 197, Seward Papers.
"the evil effects...marring everything": Entry of June 17, 1835, FAS, "Diary of Trip through Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Maryland, 1835," reel 197, Seward Papers.
"turned their horses"...homeward": Seward, An Autobiography, p. 272.
indelible images...social conscience: Entry for June 15, 1835, WHS journal in Seward, An Autobiography, p. 268; FAS to LW, January 15, 1853, reel 119, Seward Papers; WHS, "Speech in Cleveland, Ohio on the Election of 1848," Works of William H. Seward, Vol. III, pp. 29596.
a lucrative opportunity...Seward did not hesitate: Van Deusen, William Henry Seward, pp. 3839.
"more beautiful"...invited Weed"s seventeen-year-old daughter: WHS to Harriet Weed, September 8, 1836, Thurlow Weed Papers, Department of Rare Books & Special Collections, University of Rochester Library, Rochester, N.Y. [hereafter Weed Papers].
"there are a thousand...upon them": WHS to FAS, December 21, 1836, in Seward, An Autobiography, p. 321.
"so vividly remembered...a rare event": Seward, An Autobiography, p. 162.
death of Cornelia from smallpox: Seward, An Autobiography, p. 323.
"did not think it...from their Grandpa": FAS to Harriet Weed, February 9, 1837, Weed Papers.
"lightness that was...for myself": WHS to FAS, February 12, 1837, in Seward, An Autobiography, p. 325.
Frances and the boys come to Westfield: Seward, An Autobiography, pp. 33435.
"Well, I am here...from Tusculum": WHS to TW, July 10, 1837, in ibid., p. 336.
"found Westfield...missed and loved her": FAS to Harriet Weed, September 6, 1837, Weed Papers.
"I am almost in despair...almost as helpless": WHS to [FAS], December 17, 1837, in Seward, An Autobiography, p. 354.
"There is such...time to think": WHS to [TW], undated, in ibid., p. 344.
"I have been two...healthful channels": TW to WHS, November 11, 1837, quoted in Van Deusen, Thurlow Weed, p. 95.
Weed raised money...powerful New York Tribune: Autobiography of Thurlow Weed, ed. Weed, pp. 46667; Seward, Reminiscences of a War-Time Statesman and Diplomat, pp. 45, 88.
1838 gubernatorial campaign: Van Deusen, William Henry Seward, pp. 4952.
received the nomination on the fourth ballot: Seward, An Autobiography, p. 373; Van Deusen, Thurlow Weed, p. 100.
"Well, Seward...earnestly to work": TW to WHS, September 15, 1838, reel 5, Seward Papers.
the overwhelming victor: Seward, An Autobiography, p. 378.
"G.o.d bless...result to him": WHS, quoted in J. C. Derby, Fifty Years Among Authors, Books and Publishers (New York: G.W. Carleton & Co., 1884), p. 58.
"It is a fearful post...a house alone": WHS to TW, November 11, 1838, hereafter Weed Papers.
Weed arrived...inaugural outfit: WHS to TW, November 28, 1838, Weed Papers; Seward, An Autobiography, pp. 38182 (quote p. 382); Van Deusen, Thurlow Weed, p. 102.
"it was [his]...a cabinet": WHS to Hiram Ketchum, February 15, 1839, reel 8, Seward Papers.
"Your letter...as it comes up": WHS to [TW], November 23, 1837, in Seward, An Autobiography, p. 345.
"I had no idea...amiable creatures": WHS to TW, December 14, 1838, in ibid., p. 381.
"There were never two...highest sense": Barnes, Memoir of Thurlow Weed, p. 262.
told the story of a carriage ride: Seward, An Autobiography, p. 395.
an ambitious agenda...imprisonment for debt: WHS, "Annual Message to the Legislature, January 1, 1839," The Works of William H. Seward, Vol. II, pp. 183211; Seward, An Autobiography, pp. 38687.
"Our race is ordained"...the engine of Northern expansion: WHS, "Annual Message, 1839," Works of William H. Seward, Vol. II, pp. 19799.
to support parochial schools: Ibid., p. 199; WHS, "Annual Message to the Legislature, January 7, 1840," p. 215.
"to overthrow republican"...the hands of priests: Seward, An Autobiography, p. 462.