Letter, 1852 March 18, Montgomery, Ala., to Daniel Webster [n.p.].

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Letter, 1852 March 18, Montgomery, Ala., to Daniel Webster [n.p.].

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/2854476

The speech before the Historical Society of New York is the best specimen of Webster's written style. Requests position of Chargé d'Affaires to Switzerland for himself.

3 p. on 1 fold. leaf. 19 cm.

Dartmouth College Library

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Henry Washington Hilliard graduated from South Carolina College (now the University of South Carolina) at Columbia in 1826 and was admitted to the bar in Georgia in 1829. He was a professor in the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa (1831-1834), a member of the Alabama House of Representatives (1836-1838), Chargé d'Affaires to Belgium (1842-1844), U.S. Representative for Alabama (1845-1851), Confederate commissioner to Tennessee, and Minister to Brazil (1877-1881). From the descript...