Excerpt from The Letters of Daniel Webster, From Documents Owned Principally by the New Hampshire Hitorical Society With a view to effecting this wish, Edward Everett, for the executors, wrote Fletcher Webster in June of 1854, as follows: "Since the choice out of so great a mass of materials of those adapted for the press can only be made to advantage on a collective view of the whole, we shall be gratified to receive from you, as soon as convenient, such of the papers as you shall judge proper to be placed at our disposal, and we will then, as soon as possible, select from them & the collection made by ourselves those which it may be expedient to publish, at the present time, and these we wilt place in your hands for that purpose, agreeably to your request. "What further use may be made of the papers as materials for a comprehensive history of your father's life, will be a question for further consideration; and on this, and every other part of our duty, we shall at all times be desirous to learn your views, and most happy to have it in our power to comply with your wishes" From the time of this letter the whole matter seems to have rested for over a year, when Everett, having been importuned by Fletcher Webster for an opinion, writes, September 10, 1855, that "he has no hesitation in stating his confident belief that the correspondence & other papers of your late honored father now in your possession & in that of his literary executors contain-ample material for several volumes not less interesting and valuable than those already published; - perhaps for the general reader still more interesting. "It may be proper to add that at their meeting on the 11th. June, 1854, it was resolved by the Literary Executors, that such portions of your father's correspondence & papers as it might be deemed expedient to publish, should be placed in your hands for that purpose." Then, late in October, we find Edward Everett writing of bags and trunks of papers laid before the trustees a week previously. He had been directed to address an official letter to Fletcher Webster concerning the papers. He makes some suggestions about speeches to be preserved - which never were - and the form to be given any publication of the letters. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.