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Creator: |
Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852 |
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Title Remainder: |
Letter. Washington, D.C., to Robert Field Stockton [Princeton, New Jersey] 1850 March 22 |
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Dates: |
1850 March 22 |
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Identification: |
Webster Mss 850222.1 |
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Size of collection: |
1 leaf; 23 x 36 cm. folded to 23 x 18cm. |
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description: |
holograph, signed
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Abstract: |
Just two weeks after his controversial "Seventh of March" speech in the Senate supporting Henry Clay's Compromise of 1850,
Daniel Webster sends a copy of his address to Commodore Robert Stockton, who played an integral part in the conquest of California
during the Mexican-American War.
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Collection open for research.
Webster Mss 850222.1; Rauner Special Collections Library, Dartmouth College, Hanover NH.
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