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