PUBLIC LIBRARY 170230 YASTOR, LENOX AND ENTERED according to Act of Congress, in the year 1852, by D. APPLETON & CO., in the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern District of New-York. MEMORIALS OF MR. WEBSTER, IN A SERIES OF LETTERS FROM ELMS FARM AND MARSHFIELD. OFFICE IN WHICH MR. WEBSTER STUDIED LAW-WHAT BOOKS HE READ-ACQUIRES A KNOWLEDGE OF THE PRACTICE-ANECDOTE OF HIS FIRMNESS AND TACT. * ELMS FARM, N. H., Sept. - 1849. THE office in which Mr. Webster studied law, is still standing on the easterly side of the old turnpike road through this valley, about thirty rods from his old homestead. It was built by Mr. Thompson, considerably more than a half century ago. It is a small wood building, one story high, having a very ancient appearance. It is divided into two rooms, and a narrow hall; the chimney in the centre of the building, with a wide, old-fashioned fireplace in the front room: the front door or main entrance in the centre of the front side, and a window on each side of the front door, two windows on each side of the office, affording a good light to each of the rooms, with one in the hall. The front room was the place for the general business of the office; the back room for study and consultations with cli |