Daniel Webster

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Frank and Virginia Williams

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This letter, dated August 25, 1842, is from Daniel Webster, an American lawyer and statesman who represented New Hampshire and Massachusetts in the U.S. Congress and served as the U.S. Secretary of State under Presidents William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, and Millard Fillmore. to J.L. (Joseph Leonard) Tillinghast, a member of the House of Representatives in the General Assembly, serving as Speaker of the House from May 1829 to October 1832. The letter discusses the availability of the Commercial Agency at Camp Cape Haytien for W. George F. Usher. This note was found tipped into volume three, between pages 24-25 of Abraham Lincoln : A History by John G. Nicolay and John Hay.

Publication Date

8-25-1852

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Copyright protected by Mississippi State University Libraries. Use of materials from this collection beyond the exceptions provided for in the Fair Use and Educational Use clauses of the U.S. Copyright Law may violate federal law. Permission to publish or reproduce is required.

Publisher

New York : The Century Co

Subjects

Webster, Daniel, 1791-1844

Object Type

text

Format (original)

correspondence: 1 leaf

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PDF

Digital ID

FVW_NH_V3_1852-08-25_Letter_001

Source

Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana, Nicolay and Hay’s Abraham Lincoln, Volume 3, page 24-25

Repository

The Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana Repository

Digital Publisher

Mississippi State University Libraries (electronic version)

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For more information about the contents of this collection, email sp_coll@library.msstate.edu.

Letter, Daniel Webster to J.L. Tillinghast, August 25, 1852

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