Astor House, Tuesday
morning, eight o'clock.
MY DEAR SIR,—You are
quite right. I advise you to let neither business nor pleasure, friend nor foe,
principalities nor powers, separate you from that devotion to your own health
which the case requires. I love you so much, that I thought a day spent
together, in the quiet of Carmans,1 would be like a good drink of
stolen waters. But nothing, after all, connected with yourself, satisfies me so
well, as to know that you are taking care of your health.
Mrs. Webster and I
came in town last evening. She looks for a wedding on Thursday. I may stay for
it. I may stay for it. On the other hand, I may get a summons to Washington
forthwith.
Where is "South
Orange?"2 Could a body find it? Mrs. Webster will be most happy
to see Mrs. Curtis, and not more than I shall, if she should be this way before
I leave. Don't be surprised if I borrow some "Traveller's guide," and
find my way to South Orange, if I should not be off for Washington immediately.
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1 A trouting-place on Long Island.
2 A water-cure establishment in New Jersey.
SOURCE: Fletcher
Webster, Editor, The Private Correspondence of Daniel Webster, Vol.
2, p. 373
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