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red datestamp on folded letter sent from London to LaSalle, Illinois, manuscript "Dan'l Webster, f [free] U.S. Senate" frank, very fine, wonderful letter from Webster's second wife Caroline and daughter Julia to Webster's son, Daniel F. Webster (more commonly known as Fletcher Webster), includes reference to seeing Queen Victoria at a service at Westminster Abbey ("The Queen had a blue hat & feathers..."), an extraordinary inbound ship letter from one of America's greatest statesmen