Daniel Webster to Harriette Story Paige Reporting on His General Movements and Social Circle, 1 October 1843 PDF Download

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Informs his sister-in-law that he travelled through Rochester, Philadelphia, and Baltimore before arriving in Washington, D.C., where he stayed at the house he formerly occupied as Secretary of State. Reports seeing the family of Dr. Harvey Lindsley, a Washington physician and member of the American Colonization Society. Refers to a new addition to the social circle, Harriette LeRoy Lindsley, likely a relative of Dr. Lindsley.

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Reports to his sister-in-law that he arrived in New York the previous day. Expresses concern regarding the sorrow of daughter-in-law Caroline Story White Webster, referring to the recent death of her daughter Grace Fletcher Webster. Includes a note to Harriette's husband, James William Paige. Requests that James inform a Mr. Tucker to retain anything in Webster's name scheduled to arrive on a boat in Boston. States that his goods might arrive before him in Boston on The Mozart, a boat sent from Washington, D.C.

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Thanks his sister-in-law for a letter he recently received. States that he is in the company Mary Scott (likely a friend of the Websters), and Mr. & Mrs. Curtis (likely Webster's friend, lawyer and New York Representative Edward Curtis and his wife). States that letter is written In the Senate.

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Reports to his sister-in-law Paige that he enjoys the company of her husband, James William Paige, in Philadelphia. States that he plans to venture into the Mining District of Pennsylvania and hopes James will join him. Relates that he went to a party the evening before with James at the home of John Morin Scott, Mayor of Philadelphia.

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Informs his sister-in-law that he forwarded her previous letter to his wife. States that he received news from Paige's father, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, Joseph Story. States he has settled in with Mr. Curtis (possibly New York Representative Edward Curtis), and Mr. Evans (possibly Maine Representative George Evans), as well as his French and law books. Docket states that this letter contains an enclosing from La'Salle (not present).

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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.

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Declines a dinner invitation to his sister-in-law's house in favor of an invitation to Mr. Ward's (possibly Thomas Ward, the Boston agent of the Baring Brothers banking firm in England) where he plans to meet Mr. Granville Harcourt Vernon, English Parliamentary figure and son of the Archbishop of York. States that Vernon had an evening with the Webster's at Mr. Baron Parke's. Reports that Vernon's sister, Miss Harcourt, married Colonel Molcomb, son of Sir John Molcomb. October 1845 written in pencil on this document at a later date. Document comes with an envelope with an address, an intact seal, and a note likely written by Harriette Story Paige.

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Instructs his sister-in-law to bring him a letter she wrote on the second of the month. Reports he will do all he can for George Paige (likely a relative of Harriette's) including taking the unspecified matter in question before the Secretary of War. States that Mr. P. should write to Robert C. Winthrop, Senator from Massachusetts, and to George Ashmun, Representative from Massachusetts. 1848 written in pencil on this document at a later date. Only the final page of the letter survives.

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Informs his sister-in-law that he and others were distressed upon receiving her letters and two notes from Mary Blatchford regarding an accident that involved Mr. Blatchford (possibly Richard Blatchford, Webster's close friend and business associate). The back of this document includes a note and a docket, likely by Harriette Story Paige. 1 April 1847 written on this document in pencil at a later date.

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Informs his sister-in-law that he hopes to be in Boston, where she resides, by the following Saturday. Washington written in pencil on this document at a later date.