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Field name	Value
Collection Reference Number	GLC01946.48
From Archive Folder	Collection of letters written by and to Daniel Webster
Title	Daniel Webster to James William Paige regarding political papers
Date	5 February 1851
Author	Webster, Daniel (1782-1852)
Recipient	Paige, James William
Document Type	Correspondence
Content Description	Sends papers to his brother-in-law, including his famous Plymouth Oration (also entitled "First Settlement of New England") delivered in Plymouth, Massachusetts on 22 December 1820. Informs Paige that the papers were refined by New York Representative Edward Curtis. Reports that former Massachusetts Representative Edward Everett agreed to superintend the publication of the papers. States that his previous clerk, State Department employee George Abbot, intends to assist Everett with the publication.
Subjects	Literature and Language Arts Printing Immigration and Migration
People	Webster, Daniel (1782-1852) Paige, James William (fl. 1824-1852) Abbot, George (fl. 1851-1859) Curtis, Edward (1801-1856) Everett, Edward (1794-1865)
Place written	Washington, D.C.
Theme	Government & Politics; Arts & Literature
Sub-collection	The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1493-1859
Copyright	The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Module	Settlement, Commerce, Revolution and Reform: 1493-1859
Transcript	Show/hide Washington Feb.5.'51 Wednesday morning 7 o'clock - up, & shaved, & dressed, ½ an hour ago - a proof of good health - Dear Mrs. Paige: I return the papers, duly signed by Mr. Curtis. The Plymouth Speech, with the notes [illegible], went off yesterday; the next will follow tomorrow. The Printer will be kept in copy. Mr. Everett [2] has kindly consented to superintend the [struck: production] publication, & Mr. George J. Abbott, a scholar-like man, now in the Department, will go to Boston for a while, to see if he can take part of the work off Mr Everett's hands. We have some difficulty about the arrangement of the contents. On this head, I [3] shall write to Mr. Everett. Altho. at first inclined to a different opinion, I now doubt whether it will be wise to alter; materially, the order in which the Speeches in the 3. published vols now [illegible]. Yrs very truly Daniel Webster J. W. Paige Esq

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