James Madison Papers

From James Madison to Daniel Webster, 12 August 1825

To Daniel Webster

Montpellier Aug. 12. 1825

Dear Sir

I have received the copy of your Oration delivered at Bunker’s Hill on the occasion presented by the 17th. of June last.1 It merits all the praise which has been bestowed on it: And I tender you many thanks for the pleasure it has afforded me. With assurances of my distinguished2 esteem & cordial respects

J. M.

RC (NhHi: Webster Collection); draft (PHi). RC addressed and franked by JM to Webster at Boston; postmarked Orange Court House, 15 Aug.; second postmark at Boston, 20 Aug.; redirected to Webster at Cambridge, where it is marked “Opened by mistake”; and redirected to Sandwich, Massachusetts. RC fragment; partial closure and signature clipped, with a note “Cut out for Mr. Sprague,” signed and dated 13 Oct. 1828 by Thomas Davis.

1. Daniel Webster, An Address Delivered at the Laying of the Corner Stone of the Bunker Hill Monument (Boston, 1825; Shoemaker description begins Richard H. Shoemaker, comp., A Checklist of American Imprints for 1820–1829 (11 vols.; New York, 1964–72). description ends 23265).

2. Here the remainder, closure and signature included, is supplied from draft.

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    From James Madison to Daniel Webster, 12 August 1825
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    Madison, James
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    Webster, Daniel
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    12 August 1825

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    “From James Madison to Daniel Webster, 12 August 1825,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/04-03-02-0599. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Retirement Series, vol. 3, 1 March 1823 – 24 February 1826, ed. David B. Mattern, J. C. A. Stagg, Mary Parke Johnson, and Katherine E. Harbury. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2016, p. 576.]

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