Sunday morning,
June, 1850.
MY DEAR SIR,—I truly
lament that my arrangements for the week prevent my acceptance of your
invitation for Tuesday, to meet what I am sure will be a most agreeable party
of friends.
Mr. Edward Curtis
and myself, with Mrs. Curtis and Mrs. Webster, propose to leave the city as
early as Monday evening or Tuesday morning, for a short journey into Virginia,
to occupy the expected days of recess of the Senate.
As long as I have
passed a great part of every year here, I never yet saw the "passage of
the Potomac through the Blue Ridge." We propose to go by the railroad to
Harper's Ferry, thence to Winchester or further up the valley, and to return by
the way of Charlottesville.
I assure you it
gives me pain to miss the opportunity of seeing, at your house, the
distinguished strangers mentioned in your note. Yours always truly,
DANIEL WEBSTER.
SOURCE: Fletcher
Webster, Editor, The Private Correspondence of Daniel Webster, Vol.
2, p. 372
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