Boston, August 17,
1850.
DEAR SIR,—I have
taken the liberty of sending to your mansion in Marshfield, a large glass bowl,
which please accept as a token of my respect for you personally, and as a mark
of my entire confidence in your political course, through the many years you
have so patriotically devoted to the welfare of our country. I trust your late
efforts in the United States Senate will be crowned with success, and a
nation's gratitude be awarded you.
The glass bowl will
claim the merit of being much the largest piece of flint glass made by
machinery in any part of the world; two machinists were employed by the Boston
and Sandwich Glass Company, six months, in forming the mould, and the bowl sent
is the first made in it; it is called the "Union Bowl." The name, I
know, will not make it less valuable.
With respect and
esteem I remain,
SOURCE: Fletcher
Webster, Editor, The Private Correspondence of Daniel Webster, Vol.
2, p. 384
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