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Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852 to Harriette Story Paige

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC01946.49 Author/Creator: Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852 Place Written: Dunkirk, New York Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 17 May 1851 Pagination: 1 p. ; 20.2 x 13 cm. Order a Copy

Informs his sister-in-law Paige that his son, Daniel Fletcher Webster had a sore throat but that he recovered and is now writing at his table. Reports that he and Fletcher might travel to Buffalo, New York on a steamboat that evening. Letter written at 12 o'clock. 1851 written in pencil on this document at a later date.

Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852
Paige, Harriette Story, 1806-1863
Webster, Daniel Fletcher, 1813-1862

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