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    <title>Daniel Webster papers, 1800-1900 (bulk 1824-1852)</title>
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    <namePart>Webster, Daniel</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1782-1852</namePart>
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  <abstract>Correspondence, memoranda, notes and drafts for speeches,  legal papers, invitations, printed matter, newspaper clippings, and other papers pertaining to Webster's New Hampshire and Massachusetts law practices and cases heard before the U.S. Supreme Court, the Bank of the United States, diplomacy, the Northeast boundary dispute, opposition to the Mexican War, Latin American relations, national and state politics, slavery, the Compromise of 1850 (including notes for Webster's speech of 7 March 1850), the tariff question, public opinion of the presidential administrations of John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson, development of the anti-Masonic movement, Webster's presidential aspirations, and his role as secretary of state in the administrations of John Tyler and Millard Fillmore.  Webster's early life is described in letters (1849) from Charles Archer to James Watson Webb, editor of the New York Courier and Enquirer.</abstract>
  <abstract>Correspondents include Lord Ashburton (Alexander Baring), George Edmund Badger, Daniel D. Barnard, Nicholas Biddle, Lewis Cass, Rufus Choate, Henry Clay, Charles Pelham Curtis, Lord Dalling and Bulwer (Sir Henry Lytton Bulwer), John Davis, Edward Everett, Millard Fillmore, Joseph Hopkinson, James Kent, Abbott Lawrence, James K. Mills, Viscount Ossington (John Evelyn Denison), Isaac Parker, Josiah Quincy, Richard Rush, Jared Sparks, Ambrose Spencer, Andrew Stevenson, John Tyler, Fletcher Webster, Noah Webster, and Henry Wheaton.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>Also available on microfilm, no. 13,857.</note>
  <note>Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1967.</note>
  <note>Also includes nearly seven hundred typewritten transcripts of Webster's correspondence held by the New Hampshire Historical Society, Concord, N.H., together with a card index to the letters.  The transcripts were not filmed as part of microfilm no. 13,857.</note>
  <note>Lawyer, statesman, and diplomat; U.S. representative from New Hampshire and U.S. senator from Massachusetts.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
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  <note>Card index available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room.</note>
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      <namePart>Adams, John Quincy</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1767-1848</namePart>
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      <namePart>Archer, Charles</namePart>
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      <namePart type="termsOfAddress">Baron</namePart>
      <namePart>Ashburton, Alexander Baring</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1774-1848</namePart>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Badger, George Edmund</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1795-1866</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Barnard, Daniel D. (Daniel Dewey)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1797-1861</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Biddle, Nicholas</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1786-1844</namePart>
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      <namePart type="termsOfAddress">Baron</namePart>
      <namePart>Dalling and Bulwer, Henry Lytton Bulwer</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1801-1872</namePart>
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      <namePart>Cass, Lewis</namePart>
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      <namePart>Choate, Rufus</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1799-1859</namePart>
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      <namePart>Clay, Henry</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1777-1852</namePart>
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      <namePart>Curtis, Charles Pelham</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1792-1864</namePart>
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      <namePart>Davis, John</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1787-1854</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart type="termsOfAddress">Viscount</namePart>
      <namePart>Ossington, John Evelyn Denison</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1800-1873</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Everett, Edward</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1794-1865</namePart>
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      <namePart>Fillmore, Millard</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1800-1874</namePart>
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      <namePart>Hopkinson, Joseph</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1770-1842</namePart>
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      <namePart>Jackson, Andrew</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1767-1845</namePart>
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      <namePart>Kent, James</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1763-1847</namePart>
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      <namePart>Lawrence, Abbott</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1792-1855</namePart>
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      <namePart>Parker, Isaac</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1768-1830</namePart>
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      <namePart>Quincy, Josiah</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1772-1864</namePart>
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      <namePart>Stevenson, Andrew</namePart>
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      <namePart>Webb, J. Watson (James Watson)</namePart>
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    <geographic>New Hampshire</geographic>
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