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Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852 to James William Paige

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC01946.01 Author/Creator: Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852 Place Written: Columbia, Pennsylvania Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 1 June 1824 Pagination: 2p. : address : docket ; Height: 20.5 cm, Width: 16.5 cm Order a Copy

Updates his brother-in-law on his journey from Washington D.C. to Philadelphia, via Columbia, Pennsylvania. From Philadelphia, he plans to return to Washington while his wife Grace Webster continues to New York via Princeton.

Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852
Paige, James William, 1792-1868
Webster, Grace Fletcher, 1781-1828

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