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; 23265).
2. Here the remainder, closure and signature included, is supplied from draft.