Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852.
Person
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Benjamin Franklin Copeland papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss-7
Scope and Contents
Bulk of this collection consists of materials received by Benjamin Franklin Copeland (1798-1863), a Boston merchant and Justice of the Peace for Roxbury, Mass., as Chairman of a Massachusetts political committee promoting the nomination of Daniel Webster for President of the United States in 1851-1852. The most significant items among the papers are letters written by prominent state congressmen, lawyers, and merchants discussing campaign tactics, the growth of the Free Soil Party in...
Dates:
1835-1853
William Foster papers, 1734-1879.
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Mss-28
Scope and Contents
Collection contains letters sent between William Foster Jr. and William's father, siblings and their spouses, nieces and nephews, and children. Correspondents include brother-in-law Harrison Gray Otis, Andrew Ritchie, daughter and son-in-law James E. and Virginia (Foster) Coppinger, daughter Jeanne Francoise "Fanny" (Foster) Tudor, brother Leonard Foster, sisters Grace (Foster) Apthorp and Mary (Foster) Apthorp, and Nathan Spear Jr. William also received personal letters from friends in...
Dates:
1734-1879
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- Boston (Mass.) -- Commerce. 1
- Boston (Mass.) -- Maps. 1
- Campaign management. 1
- Caucus. 1
- Deeds -- Massachusetts -- Boston 1
- Elections -- Massachusetts. 1
- Europe -- Description and travel. 1
- Lawyers -- Political activity. 1
- Nominations for office -- Massachusetts. 1
- Patents. 1
- Political conventions -- Massachusetts -- Boston. 1
- Political letter writing. 1
- Portrait miniatures. 1
- Shays' Rebellion, 1786-1787 -- Correspondence. 1
- Wharves -- Massachusetts -- Boston. 1 ∧ less
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