Thursday, October 12, 2023

Senator Daniel Webster to Edward Curtis, Tuesday, June [possibly 18,] 1850—8 a.m.

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.

With the truest affection for you both, yours.
D. W.

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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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