RP 6981/13

Group of Autograph Letters Signed to Daniel Webster, from the President John Tyler, Edward Everett and Governor Edward Kent. Series of letters of D Webster to Lord Ashburton, discussing security of US slave-carrying vessels being driven into British ports as they pass through the Bahamas, also a copy of letter from D Webster to the Governors of Maine and Massachusetts, letters from the Governor of Maine to D Webster. Copy of proposal of Maine Commissioners for settlement of boundary, 8 July 1842, in a letter of Daniel Webster. Series of long full letters to Lord Ashburton from Lord Aberdeen, instructions on negotiations and British objectives, other political news and gossip, also official letters discussing credentials, general instructions, slave trade, North East boundary, concessions, impressment, etc. Autograph Letter Signed of Stephen Lushington to Lord Ashburton on the right of examining vessels engaged in the slave trade, Autograph Letter Signed to Lord Ashburton from Lord Stanley, 3 Autograph Letters Signed of Charles Bagot to Lord Ashburton, Autograph Letter Signed from General Mercer, Thomas Hodgkin (on the slave trade), Robert Morris (as Mayor of New York)

Creation dates: 8 July 1842, undated