Manuscripts

Letter to Hiram Ketchum

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Description: Formerly bound with other documents by Webster and Henry Clay. Binding is now housed separately. Was enclosed with minutes from the journal of the Senate and the House of Representatives re: the Compromise Bill of 1833, catalogued separately as mssHM 779.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1838.
Call number: mssHM 20993
Creator: Webster, Daniel (1782-1852)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Provenance unknown. In library as of 1929.
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