Letter : to William Hickling Prescott, 1850 Aug. 29.

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Letter : to William Hickling Prescott, 1850 Aug. 29.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/41415981

In the letter, written the night before his execution, Webster asks that his burial be kept secret and wonders whether his body could be placed for a month or two in the Prescott tomb under St. Paul's until "morbid curiousity is at rest." Webster also expresses great remorse for his crime.

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Boston Athenaeum

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