Thursday, October 12, 2023

Senator Daniel Webster to Fletcher Webster, June [possibly 23,] 1850—10:30

Sunday, half-past ten o'clock, June, 1850.

DEAR FLETCHER,—After writing you this morning, I received two letters from you, for which I thank you. I shall now go to Marshfield before I go to New Hampshire, and will push right off for Marshpee, Waquoit, Red Brook, or elsewhere in those foreign parts.

This morning, after breakfast, and before church, that is, between half-past seven and eleven o'clock, I struck out the whole frame and substance of my address for the Fourth of July. I propose to write it all out, which I can do in three hours, and to read it, and to give correct copies at once to the printers.

So, if I find a trout stream in Virginia, I shall not have to be thinking out, "Venerable men."

Your mother wrote Caroline yesterday, and sends you her love to-day.

Yours affectionately,
DAN'L WEBSTER.

SOURCE: Fletcher Webster, Editor, The Private Correspondence of Daniel Webster, Vol. 2, p. 375

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