Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1782-01-18 - 1852-10-24
Daniel Webster (1782-1852), American statesman who represented New Hampshire and Massachusetts in the United States Congress and served as the United States Secretary of State under Presidents William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, and Millard Fillmore.
Found in 14 Collections and/or Records:
George Jacob Abbot papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 28
Overview:
Minister and diplomat. Correspondence largely relating to Abbot's service as secretary to Daniel Webster and as an agent of the State Department in England and Canada. Included are 104 letters by Daniel Webster as well as copies of several of his speeches. State Department papers concerning controversies with England (1837-1852), newspaper clippings about Daniel Webster and miscellaneous receipts, inventories and photographs make up the remainder of the papers.
Dates:
1811-1901
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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George Jacob Abbot papers
David Daggett papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 162
Overview:
Correspondence (primarily letters received) and other papers of David Daggett, Connecticut lawyer, jurist, politician, teacher, and author. The papers relate primarily to Daggett's legal and political activities and to Federalist Party politics. Important correspondents include Simeon Baldwin, Abraham Bishop, Isaac Bronson, John C. Calhoun, Henry Clay, Charles Denison, Elizur Goodrich, Gideon Granger, Roger Griswold, Rufus King, William Leffingwell, Josiah Meigs, Timothy Pickering, Benjamin...
Dates:
1781-1851
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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David Daggett papers
Harry H. Ensign autograph collection
Collection
Call Number: MS 1228
Overview:
Miscellaneous autographs and letters of American political and cultural figures, among them John and John Quincy Adams, Daniel Webster, Jefferson Davis, Horace Greeley, and Lydia Sigourney. Also included are eleven letters to James F. Babcock, editor of the New Haven Weekly Palladium, on politics (1840-1866) and seven letters (1866-1872) to R. P. Cowles in New Haven from prospective lecturers.
Dates:
1818-1880
Envelope fragment, Feb 15
Part of Collection — Box: 56, Folder: GROUP 2134, F-4
Call Number: GEN MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:
Envelope, signed, addressed to Asa O. Aldis.
Date from postmark.
Date from postmark.
Dates:
Feb 15
Johnson family papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 305
Overview:
The papers consist of correspondence, papers, volumes, deeds, and other material documenting several generations of the Johnson family of Connecticut and New York. Samuel Johnson (1696-1772), William Samuel Johnson (1727-1819), William Samuel Johnson (1795-1883), and Samuel William Johnson (1828-1895) are prominent figures in the papers. The correspondence of William Livingston (1723-1790) and Noah Welles (1718-1776) is also arranged in the papers. In addition to extensive correspondence...
Dates:
1631-2017, bulk 1631-1918
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Johnson family papers
Letter : Marshfield, to W. A. Bradley, 1838 Sep 5
Part of Collection — Box: 56, Folder: GROUP 2134, F-3
Call Number: GEN MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:
ALS.
Dates:
1838 Sep 5
Letter and signatures, n.d.
Part of Collection — Box: 56, Folder: GROUP 2134, F-2
Call Number: GEN MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:
ALS to John Eliot Thayer ; envelope, signed; and envelope signed with initials.
Dates:
n.d.
Letters and signatures, 1841
Part of Collection — Box: 56, Folder: GROUP 2134, F-5
Call Number: GEN MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:
ALS to [F. L.?] Edwards, Sep 26, 1841; ALS serving as a letter of introduction for E. Champion Bacon, Apr 17, 1844; and two signatures mounted on a sheet: one on a franked envelope addressed to David Daggett and a second clipped from a document, possibly a franked envelope.
Dates:
1841, 1844
William Smith Mason autograph collection
Collection
Call Number: MS 344
Overview:
The collection consists of autograph manuscripts, documents and correspondence of people in public life. The collection contains correspondence of Theodore Roosevelt with Francis J. Heney and others and copies of letters of the Jonathan Knight family.
Dates:
1800-1929
Mary Ann Phelps Montgomery collection
Collection
Call Number: MS 801
Overview:
A collection of autograph letters and manuscripts, many of leading American public figures, collected by Mary Ann Phelps Montgomery. Fifteen letters are addressed to her father, Governor John Smith Phelps (1814-1866) of Missouri, six were written by James G. Blaine (1830-1893), and five by Thomas C. Reynolds of Missouri. The collection includes items signed by four American presidents, several European heads of state, and prominent members of European nobility.
Dates:
1746-1939
Note : Washington, to William Darius Bishop, [1848] Mar
Part of Collection — Box: 56, Folder: GROUP 2134, F-1
Call Number: GEN MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:
ANS providing his autograph to a Yale College society.
Dates:
[1848] Mar
Benajah Ticknor papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 495
Overview:
Journals, letterbook, medical notes, and essays of Benajah Ticknor, doctor and surgeon with the U.S. Navy. Of primary importance are the journals which describe journeys made by Ticknor with the Navy to South America, the Far East, and Europe.
Dates:
1818-1852
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Benajah Ticknor papers
Vann collection
Collection
Call Number: MS 1182
Overview:
A collection of autograph letters and facsimiles of which the largest number are letters to and from Daniel Webster. Also in the collection is a volume of drafts of letters, pamphlets, and speeches composed by Stephen Devalson Dillaye between 1864-1868 on current political issues. Dillaye was a Democrat who opposed radical abolitionism, but sided with the North in the Civil War.
Dates:
1778-1887, bulk 1822-1887
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Vann collection
James Watson Webb papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 683
Overview:
The James Watson Webb papers consist of correspondence, letterbooks, newspapers, diaries, and miscellanea documenting the personal life and professional career of James Watson Webb and his family, including his second wife, Laura Virginia Cram Webb. The papers document Webb's journalistic and political careers, his personal life, and the activities and observations of his second wife, Laura Virginia Cram Webb, a close confidante to her husband. Major topics of interest include New York politics...
Dates:
1819-1890
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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James Watson Webb papers