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- GLC#
- GLC01946.30-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 1845
- Author/Creator
- Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852
- Title
- to James William Paige
- Place Written
- Marshfield, Massachusetts
- Pagination
- 4 p. : docket ; Height: 24.2 cm, Width: 20.1 cm
- Primary time period
- National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
- Sub-Era
- Age of Jackson
Thanks his brother-in-law for sending a beautiful basket. States that he went with his son Edward Webster to a pond where they acquired some ducks to send to Paige. Referencing the killed ducks, declares it "murderous, & hardly fair sport; but it shows how things are done, down here in Marshfield." 1845 written on this document in pencil at a later date.
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