Webster, Daniel (1782-1852) to Harriette Story Paige [incomplete]
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC01946.51 Author/Creator: Webster, Daniel (1782-1852) Place Written: s.l. Type: Autograph letter signed Date: circa 1848 Pagination: 1 p. ; 22.4 x 18 cm. Order a Copy
Instructs his sister-in-law to bring him a letter she wrote on the second of the month. Reports he will do all he can for George Paige (likely a relative of Harriette's) including taking the unspecified matter in question before the Secretary of War. States that Mr. P. should write to Robert C. Winthrop, Senator from Massachusetts, and to George Ashmun, Representative from Massachusetts. 1848 written in pencil on this document at a later date. Only the final page of the letter survives.
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