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Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852 to Harriette Story Paige

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC01946.55 Author/Creator: Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852 Place Written: s.l. Type: Autograph letter signed Date: circa 1848 Pagination: 1 p. : Height: 19.8 cm, Width: 12.5 cm Order a Copy

Informs his sister-in-law Paige that it is "no day for a daguerreotype." States that he can not reconcile himself to a change in his stance suggested by the artist George P. A. Healy, claiming "everyone who knows me would laugh to see me holding out my left arm in that manner."

Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852
Paige, Harriette Story, 1806-1863
Healy, George Peter Alexander, 1813-1894

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