trip home from Cunningham’s party, 92–94
turkey for Littlefield, 84, 99, 100, 193, 213, 289n
visit to Francis Parkman, 62
visit to Littlefield quarters, 102–3
see also trial of John Webster
Webster, Marianne
after father’s conviction, 225, 232, 261
at home in Cambridge, 88, 225
letters from father in jail, 149–50, 197
at Mrs. Cunningham’s party, 90–91, 92
testimony at trial, 203–4
Webster, Redford, 228
Webster’s lab
acid splashes and spots, 20, 86–87, 226, 241
assay furnace in, 21, 81, 83, 126–27, 134, 184, 226
coal pen off of, 21, 81, 86
cod hooks and twine, 126, 127, 241
description of, 20–21, 278n
filed keys in drawer, 126, 241
grapevines, 74, 90, 100, 110, 240
hot wall, 85–86, 109, 193
knife (Turkish yatagan), 182, 185, 241
leather, 74, 90
locked doors, 82, 85–86, 87, 100, 109, 193, 217
nitrate of copper on floor, 186, 217
pine pitch kindling, 86
police search, 73–75, 118, 125–27, 133–36
public viewing of, 226–27, 230
sealable tin box, 197, 241
tea chest, 74, 134–35, 143, 175, 197, 226, 241
Welsh, Catharine, 104
Wentworth, Samuel, 141
Whipple, John Adams, 169, 306n
White-Jacket (Melville), 196
Wilkins, John, 219
Willard, Sidney (mayor), 132–33
Winsor, Justin, 267
Wyman, Jeffries, 143–44, 183, 212, 243, 277n
Wyman, Morrill, 204
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