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Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852 to James William Paige

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC01946.30 Author/Creator: Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852 Place Written: Marshfield, Massachusetts Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 1845 Pagination: 4 p. : docket ; Height: 24.2 cm, Width: 20.1 cm Order a Copy

Thanks his brother-in-law for sending a beautiful basket. States that he went with his son Edward Webster to a pond where they acquired some ducks to send to Paige. Referencing the killed ducks, declares it "murderous, & hardly fair sport; but it shows how things are done, down here in Marshfield." 1845 written on this document in pencil at a later date.

Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852
Paige, James William, 1792-1868
Webster, Edward, 1820-1848

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