Team of Rivals_ The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln - Doris Kearns Goodwin [508]
description of Albany: “Albany Fifty Years Ago,” Harper’s New Monthly Magazine 14 (March 1857), pp. 451–63.
“first steam-powered…web of tracks”: McEneny, Albany, pp. 16 (quote), 98.
The legislature…Bemont’s Hotel: Seward, An Autobiography, pp. 80–81; Frederick W. Seward, Reminiscences of a War-Time Statesman and Diplomat, 1830–1915 (New York and London: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1916), p. 2; Taylor, William Henry Seward, p. 24.
Seward attends alone: Seward, An Autobiography, p. 80.
“Weed is…warmth of feeling”: WHS to FAS, January 12, 1831, in ibid., p. 166.
“one of the greatest…except politics”: WHS to FAS, February 6, 1831, in ibid., pp. 179–80.
Weed and Seward’s mutual interests: Van Deusen, William Henry Seward, p. 17; Taylor, William Henry Seward, p. 25.
“My room is a thoroughfare”: WHS to FAS, February 16, 1831, in Seward, An Autobiography, p. 182.
Albert Haller Tracy: Van Deusen, William Henry Seward, p. 17; “Tracy, Albert Haller, 1793–1859,” Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, http://bioguide.congress.gov (accessed December 2003).
“crushed…passes in his mind”: FAS to LW, March 12, 1832, reel 118, Seward Papers.
“He and Henry…love with each other”: FAS to LW, March 4, 1832, reel 118, Seward Papers.
“It shames my…since I left Albany”: Albert H. Tracy to WHS, February 7, 1831, reel 1, Seward Papers.
Seward at first reciprocated: FAS to LW, March 12, 1832, reel 118, Seward Papers.
a “rapturous joy…I possessed”: WHS to Albert H. Tracy, February 11, 1831, typescript copy, Albert Haller Tracy Papers, New York State Library, Albany, New York [hereafter Tracy Papers].
“My feelings…divided with many”: Albert H. Tracy to WHS, June 12, 1832, reel 1, Seward Papers.
“Weed has never…account for it”: FAS to LW, March [?] 1832, reel 118, Seward Papers (quote); FAS to LW, April 5, 1832, reel 118, Seward Papers.
“Love—cruel tyrant…hallowed affections”: Albert H. Tracy to WHS, September 24, 1832, reel 1, Seward Papers.
He transferred his unrequited love: FAS to LW, March [?] and September 27, 1832, reel 118, Seward Papers; WHS to FAS, November 28, 1834, reel 112, Seward Papers.
“losing my influence…differently constituted”: FAS to WHS, December 5, 1834, reel 113, Seward Papers.
relationship between Tracys and Sewards: FAS to LW, March 12, 24, and undated March, April 9, 1832, reel 118, Seward Papers.
“He is a singular…shade of difference”: FAS to LW, March 12, 1832, reel 118, Seward Papers.
“I believe at present…should choose”: FAS to LW, March [?] 1832, reel 118, Seward Papers.
“very glad…very much”: FAS to LW, November 17, 1833, reel 118, Seward Papers.
private emotional intimacy: See Karen Lystra, Searching the Heart: Women, Men and Romantic Love in Victorian America (New York: Oxford University Press, 1989), pp. 31–33.
a three-month voyage to Europe: Seward, An Autobiography, pp. 104–41.
“What a romance…malicious political warfare”: Ibid., pp. 116, 128.
spent a long weekend visiting: Ibid., pp. 134–40.
When Judge Miller…“be so unreasonable”: FAS to LW, September 27, 1833, reel 118, Seward Papers.
she proffered the letters: WHS to Albert Tracy, quoted in WHS to FAS, December 29, 1834, reel 112, Seward Papers.
Seward’s first run for governor: Glyndon G. Van Deusen, Thurlow Weed: Wizard of the Lobby (Boston: Little, Brown, 1947), pp. 87–89; Taylor, William Henry Seward, pp. 35–36.
Whigs offered a gallery…Henry Clay himself: Seward, An Autobiography, p. 238. This same campaign tactic was adopted by the youthful John F. Kennedy in his campaign for the presidency in 1960.
Defeat shook…jeopardized his marriage: WHS to FAS, November 24 and 28, 1834, reel 112, Seward Papers; Van Deusen, William Henry Seward, pp. 28, 33–34.
“What a demon…are not crushed”: WHS to FAS, November 28, 1834, reel 112, Seward Papers.
“I am growing womanish…happy a lot”: WHS to FAS, December 5, 1834, reel 112, Seward Papers.
“You reproach yourself…the right path”: FAS to WHS, December 5, 1834, reel 113, Seward Papers.
Seward pledged: WHS to FAS, December 15 and 29, 1834, reel 112, Seward Papers.
“to live