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Holograph, signed with initials.
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cv43qg569
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Letter from Amos Farnsworth, Groton, [Mass.], to Anne Warren Weston, April 11, 1840
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cv43qg569
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title
Letter from Amos Farnsworth, Groton, [Mass.], to Anne Warren Weston, April 11, 1840
description
Holograph, signed with initials.
date
["April 11, 1840"]
year
1840
rights
No known copyright restrictions.
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No known restrictions on use.
reuseAllowed
no restrictions
language
English
identifierLocal
3134355
creators
Farnsworth, Amos, 1788-1861
Weston, Anne Warren, 1812-1890
institution
Boston Public Library
collections
Anti-Slavery Collection
subjects
Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century
Women abolitionists--Massachusetts--Boston--19th century--Correspondence
Christian union
Antislavery movements--United States
Women abolitionists--United States
Weston, Anne Warren, 1812-1890
Farnsworth, Amos, 1788-1861
Chaplin, William L. (William Lawrence), 1796-1871
Hawley, Silas, 1815-1883
Phelps, Dudley, 1798-1849
Boston Female Anti-slavery Society
Birney, James Gillespie, 1792-1857
Emancipator
subjectsGeographic
Boston
Massachusetts
North and Central America
Suffolk (county)
United States
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Correspondence
Manuscripts
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Text
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United States
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Massachusetts
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Suffolk
city
Boston
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1
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1 leaf (4 p.) ; 9 7/8 x 7 3/4 in.
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yes
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sf268508b
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ht24xg10q
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42.35
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-71.05
notes
Holograph, signed with initials.
Amos Farnsworth explains the parliamentary procedure involved in an incident at a meeting of the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society. The Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society is apparently considering a move to dissolve itself and reorganize as a New Organization society. Farnsworth comments: "I am thunderstruck at the audacious villainy of the Executive Committee in selling the Emancipator to Leavitt." Farnsworth is not going to England. The Board of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society attempted to dismiss William L. Chaplin. Christian union "is all the go here," while anti-slavery "is not thought of." Dudley Phelps may have "to take a walking ticket." Silas Hawley has been to Littleton, Westford, and Lowell in Massachusetts, where new societies will be formed. Mr. Lord from western New York has arrived; he is to "hold the ground that Hawley wrenches from the enemy." Farnsworth exclaims: "James Birney Pres. of the U.S.! I think if Loring or Garrison had been at the Convention no nomination would have been made."
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Groton, [Mass.]
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cv43qg569
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1
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