Legacy Library: Daniel Webster

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Essays and treatises on several subjects : in two volumes by David Hume

The hundred Boston orators appointed by the municipal authorities and other public bodies, from 1770 to 1852; comprising historical gleanings illustrating the principles and progress of our republican institutions by James Spear Loring

Lectures on the restrictive system; delivered to the senior political class of William and Mary College by Thomas R. Dew

Lectures on the philosophy of the human mind by Thomas Brown

The works of the right honourable Edmund Burke by Edmund Burke

The military operations at Cabul, which ended in the retreat and destruction of the British army, January 1842 by Sir Vincent Eyre

Astronomy and general physics considered with reference to natural theology by William Whewell

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About meJanuary 18, 1782 – October 24, 1852

A skilled orator and statesman, Daniel Webster served several years in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives before becoming both the 14th and the 19th Secretary of State under William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, and Millard Fillmore.

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About my libraryAt the time of Webster's death in 1852, his library contained 1302 titles, which were auctioned to the public in 1875, nearly 23 years after his death.

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The auction catalog, contributed by the University of California and digitized in the Internet Archive.

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A Boston Advertiser article about Webster's library, from the New York Times archives.

Real nameDaniel Webster

LocationMarshfield, Mass., United States

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