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There are many who can spread a story over twenty pages; but very few who can condense it into one.

- William Henry Seward, February 24, 1872

The Bloody Sheet from Seward's Assassination Attempt

c. 1865

From Seward's bed on the night of the assassination attempt. Strip of a linen bedsheet showing knife slashes and dried blood droplets. Sheet cut by knife of the assassin on the night of April 14, 1865.

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Seward House Museum

Hours: Tuesday-Saturday 10am-5pm
Guided tours occur on the hour

33 South St. Auburn, NY 13021
Telephone: (315) 252-1283
Email: info@sewardhouse.org

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The Seward House Museum is funded, in part, by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature.

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