Fanny remembered fun childhood memories of playing with her father in this last letter written to him on August 27, 1866.
“My dearest Father Your letter of the 25th comes this afternoon. How charming to think of you playing croquet. I wish I might have been a looker on. I’ve not seen you playing a game to the best of my recollection, (whist excepted) since the days that seem so long ago, when I was a very little girl, and thought it the most delightful thing imaginable to play Blind Man’s Bluff, and Puss in the Corner, with my father. How we little ones scampered from corner to corner of the old South room – and what peals of laughter we uttered when you made feints of catching us! …. Most affectionately your daughter Fanny”
Letter from Fanny to Seward, Aug 27, 1866, (University of Rochester, Seward Family Project Archives)