Senator Daniel Webster to Peter Harvey, March 28, 1850

Washington, Thursday, March 28, 1850.

MY DEAR SIR,—The letter¹ is admirable; too good, too good. I don't deserve the one hundredth part of what it says. Let it come immediately, as Mr. Edward Curtis wrote you yesterday. It is looked for here with interest.

We got the northern mail so late to-day, I have hardly time to write the shortest note.

Things look well here, and improve every hour.

I will find time to write, both to you and Fletcher to-morrow. Say to him, that about some things there is no occasion for haste. Time enough yet.

Yours,

D. W.

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¹ A letter signed by Hon. T. H. Perkins, Hon. Charles Jackson, and a great many others, on the occasion of Mr. Webster's speech of March 7, 1850.

SOURCE: Fletcher Webster, Editor, The Private Correspondence of Daniel Webster, Vol. 2, p. 363