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- GLC#
- GLC01946.28-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- March 27, 1844
- Author/Creator
- Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852
- Title
- to Harriette Story Paige
- Place Written
- s.l.
- Pagination
- 2 p. : docket ; Height: 25.2 cm, Width: 20.3 cm
- Primary time period
- National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
- Sub-Era
- Age of Jackson
Describes a service he attended the previous evening to his sister-in-law. Discusses the form used in the book of Habakkuk, stating that the "passages ... present ... a remarkable instance of the Hebrew form of Poetic composition." Quotes 3 Habakkuk, verses 17 and 18. Suggests Harriette read Bishop Lowth's writings on Hebrew Poetry, which for Webster "opened ... quite a new view of the beauties of the prophetical & practical parts of the Old Testament." Signed and docketed on the back by Paige.
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