Webster, Daniel (1782-1852) to Harriette Story Paige [incomplete]
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC01946.53 Author/Creator: Webster, Daniel (1782-1852) Place Written: New York, New York Type: Autograph letter signed Date: circa 1845 Pagination: 3 p. ; 18 x 11.5 cm. Order a Copy
Humorously tells sister-in-law that the families of the New York congressmen James Kent, Thomas Oakley and Edward Curtis have been "put in a commotion" regarding a lost atlas. Reports that a dispatch has been sent to Europe to follow Edward Curtis through France, Germany, Switzerland, Como, Rome, and Naples. States that he will notify George Curtis (possibly his biographer, lawyer George Ticknor Curtis) to terminate the dispatch to Europe if Curtis can meet Paige at a New York Hotel. Only the final three pages of this document survive.
Oh, you dear, delightful, neglectful, charming, & forgetful woman! I have agitated half N. York about that Atlas! - The Kents, the Oakleys, the Curtises, have all been put in a state of commotion. Finally, a dispatch has gone to Europe, to follow Mr Edward Curtis thro France, Germany & Switzerland [2] Switzerland, to Como, Rome & Naples; to [bring] him straight home, if he can give no good account of that Atlas!
I can say no more; as it is now Monday, 11 oclock A.M. & I expect Mrs Webster to trip up the steps, in just 20 minutes.
I shall write to Mr George Curtis to stop the Express to Europe, if he can, & to call on you at the [3] N.Y. Hotel.
Yours affectionably
D. Webster
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