Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852 to Harriette Story Paige

GLC01946.35

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GLC#
GLC01946.35-View header record
Type
Letters
Date
April 29, 1847
Author/Creator
Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852
Title
to Harriette Story Paige
Place Written
Richmond, Virginia
Pagination
4p. : Height: 24.6 cm, Width: 20.7 cm
Primary time period
National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
Sub-Era
Age of Jackson

On a tour through the southern states, Webster writes to his sister-in-law Paige, stating that Richmond, Virginia has a "pleasant beat." Poetically describes morning as a "new image of light, a new breaking forth of the sun, a new waking up of all that has life, from a sort of temporary death, to behold, again the works of God, the Heavens & the Earth." Reports that he had left Washington the previous day with his wife Caroline LeRoy Webster, William Seaton (Webster's friend and co-owner of the congressional paper The National Intelligencer), Josephine Seaton (William's daughter), and other acquaintances Mary Scott and Mr. Schroeder. States that New York Representative Edward Curtis jumped aboard at the last minute.

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