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Excerpt from The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 1919, Vol. 13: Part One
Edward Everett, co-worker and friend of Webster, with exceptional opportunity for judging his subject, wrote what Curtis calls a beautiful and carefully written biographical memoir. This seems to have been the result of an introduction furnished by Everett to the second volume of the Speeches and Forensic A rguments Webster asking in letters written March 21, 1847, and January 8, 18 51 that it be revised and extended to apply to a new edition of all his speeches.' This new edition, containing Everett's biographical introduction, was The Works of Daniel Webster (185 1; and other editions), in 6 volumes. The memoir, again extended, appears also in the National Edition (1903) Everett also delivered a eulogy in Boston in 18 59. Raymond's work was a remark able example Oi nimble journalism. It appeared first in the New York Daily Times of October 25, 1852, and then in two editions in book form. Lanman wrote on The Private Life of Daniel Webster (1 8 5 2) from knowledge gained as his private secretary. George Ticknor Curtis, one of Webster's literary executors, produced in his Life of Daniel Webster (1 870; several editions) a monument to the statesman's memory which has been the code mecum for all later biographers. It has been somewhat Of a custom to distrust Harvey's Reminiscences and A necdotes (187 7; and later editions), while making considerable use of his material; but Dr. Fisher, in explaining this tend.
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