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Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852 to Harriette Story Paige

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC01946.22 Author/Creator: Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852 Place Written: s.l. Type: Autograph letter signed Date: circa 1842 Pagination: 3 p. : Height: 17.8 cm, Width: 12.3 cm Order a Copy

Writes to his sister-in-law, enclosing a note of introduction for British foreign minister Lord Alexander Ashburton and James Paige, Harriette's husband. Instructs Harriette to have the note "sealed and presented on [Ashburton's] arrival." States, "You will hear that the the [sic] Treaty is done! and I am almost done, too," referring to the Webster-Ashburton Treaty of 1842, which defined the North Eastern boundary between the United States and Canada and resulted in a lasting peace agreement between Britain and America. Reports that the only issue not negotiated with Ashburton was that of "the Fisheries," likely referring to the fishing rights of each country in shared waters. Thanks Harriette for five handkerchiefs he received. August or September 1842 written in pencil on this document at a later date.

Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852
Paige, Harriette Story, 1806-1863
Ashburton, Alexander Baring, Baron, 1774-1848

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