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    "title": "Incomplete letter from Debora Weston, Weymouth, [Mass.], to Anne Warren Weston, April 15, 1851, Tuesday afternoon",
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        "Weston, Debora, 1814-",
        "Weston, Anne Warren, 1812-1890"
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        "Anti-Slavery Collection"
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        "Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century",
        "Women abolitionists--Massachusetts--Boston--19th century--Correspondence",
        "Antislavery movements--United States",
        "Women abolitionists--United States",
        "Weston, Debora, 1814-",
        "Weston, Anne Warren, 1812-1890",
        "Chapman, Mary Gray, 1798-1874",
        "Colver, Nathaniel, 1794-1870",
        "Fifield, Mary",
        "Loring, Ellis Gray, 1803-1858",
        "Parker, Theodore, 1810-1860",
        "Phillips, Wendell, 1811-1884",
        "Phillips, Ann Terry Greene, 1813-1886",
        "Quincy, Edmund, 1808-1877",
        "Rantoul, Robert, Jr., 1805-1852",
        "Sewall, Samuel E. (Samuel Edmund), 1799-1888",
        "Sims, Thomas, approximately 1834-",
        "Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852",
        "Weston, R. Warren (Richard Warren), 1819-1873",
        "Weston, Warren, 1780-1855",
        "Vigilance Committee (Boston, Mass.)",
        "Bearse, Austin"
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        "Holograph.",
        "The last page/s of this letter is missing.",
        "Debora Weston writes that \"Mary Chapman has shown a great deal of interest & spunk in this matter--for her--& talked very reasonably & feelingly.\" [The is perhaps a reference to the case of Thomas Sims, a fugitive slave.] Debora continues: \"My private opinion was that Theodore Parker shrunk in the wetting ... I did not think he stood by Wendell, neither did Ann Terry ...\" \"We were so far successful that Simms [sic] was carried off in the gray of the morning, with 11 companies under arms in Faneuil Place ...\" Debora praises Sam Sewall, Ellis G. Loring, and Robert Rantoul for the fight they made. She says that the \"Committee of Vigilance did as well as they knew how.\" Austin Bearse thought a ship captain could have been bribed. She praises Wendell Phillips at length. She comments that \"I never saw anything equal to Ann Terry's grit, ...\" Debora extols the courage of Samuel May, Jr., and his family. She describes Mrs. Ann Terry Phillips's experiences, which included a visit by Edmund Quincy. Mrs. Grafton died of cancer. She writes that \"J. H. Clifford has I suppose lied in public about this writ of replevin ...\" Theodore Parker preached to a full audience in Tremont Temple. She describes N. Colver's behavior at an anti-slavery meeting. The mayor and alderman refused Faneuil Hall to Daniel Webster. She thinks Warren Weston's health will improve when the weather gets warmer. Mrs. Fifield lent a book to Debora. A man named Baker, Warren Weston, Sr., and Debora Weston had an argument over the location of a barn.",
        "Includes an envelope addressed to Miss Weston, Goodhue & Co., New York, N.Y."
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