A Small Volume, Yet...

GIFTS A Small Volume, Yet.. No study of nineteenth-century American politics can ignore Saniel Webster, class of 1801, a brilliant statesman, attorney, and articulator of American principles whose career was tragically marred toward its end by his defense of the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850. Thus it is that a simplw volume of webster's early speeches, a $12,500 price: The book is inscribed by Webster to Supreme Court Justice John Marshall, who presided over the Dartmouth College case. Dartmouth Col lege Library now counts the volume among its collection ot Web- ster books and papers, thanks to a gift from Roger Malkin '52. The volume began its voyage to Dartmouth when Marshall gave it to a family friend who later settled in Minnesota'. The book remained in that family until sometime alter 1914. It made its way to Dartmouth via Alalkin and a collector who found it in a Vancouver. British Columbia, bookstore in the 1980s.

Webster's oratory was a gift.