Letters to Benjamin Seaver, 1824-1854; bulk: 1854.

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Letters to Benjamin Seaver, 1824-1854; bulk: 1854.

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Letters to Benjamin Seaver, primarily from his children Benjamin Francis "Frank" Seaver, Mary Elizabeth Seaver Blanchard, and Charles Milton Seaver, Jan.-June 1854. Benjamin Seaver was a Massachusetts congressman and the mayor of Boston in 1852 and 1853. In 1854, he was living in Paris and London. The letters discuss family matters, including the health of Benjamin Seaver's wife, Sarah (Johnson) Seaver, who was a patient at the McLean Asylum for the Insane (now McLean Hospital) under the care of Dr. Luther V. Bell. Other subjects include business and financial matters; the economy; news of the Crimean War; temperance laws in Boston and other local political issues; debates over the Kansas-Nebraska Act and slavery in those territories; the Missouri Compromise; the Compromise of 1850 and the Fugitive Slave Law; the Anthony Burns fugitive slave case and the reaction of Northern abolitionists; riots and martial law in Boston following the trial; growing tension between the North and the South; the Know-Nothing movement (or American Party) and anti-Catholicism; and smallpox and cholera outbreaks. The collection contains no letters written during Seaver's tenure as mayor of Boston. Also included is a 27 Feb. 1824 letter from James T. Blanchard to Harriet Blanchard describing New Orleans and the American response to the Greek War of Independence.

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