Simpson and Marshall had left overland from…
June 1843 CE
Simpson had continued to England, while Marshall had gone by ships and trains to Boston by June 2.
He spreads the news in the American press, and meets on June 4 with fellow Bostonians such as U.S. Secretary of State Daniel Webster and business partner and future minister to Hawaii Henry A. Peirce.
Webster gives him letters for Edward Everett, who is the American minister to the United Kingdom.