Mar 13, 2008 - Sale 2139

Sale 2139 - Lot 65

Price Realized: $ 540
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
"I SHALL COME TO SEE YOU, ON DIVERSE WEIGHTY MATTERS" WEBSTER, DANIEL. Autograph Letter Signed, "D. Webster," as U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, to Supreme Court Associate Justice Joseph Story, enclosing a document [not present] and promising that, following a short trip, he would come to see him to discuss "weighty matters." 1 page, 4to, with integral address leaf; folds, worm hole affecting a single letter of text. Boston, 13 July 1829

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"I transmit the enclosed for your perusal. I have wished an hour's chat with you, for some time, but circumstances have not favored the interview. I think of taking a short journey, to get out on Wednesday, as far as to Con. & Rivers, to return in about a week. When I get home, I shall come to see you, on diverse weighty matters."