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Holograph, signed with initials.
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vm418114k
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Letter from Debora Weston, Weymouth, [Mass.], to Caroline Weston, 6 June 1854
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vm418114k
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title
Letter from Debora Weston, Weymouth, [Mass.], to Caroline Weston, 6 June 1854
description
Holograph, signed with initials.
date
["June 6, 1854"]
year
1854
rights
No known copyright restrictions.
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No known restrictions on use.
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no restrictions
language
English
identifierLocal
2799071
creators
Weston, Debora, 1814-
Weston, Caroline, 1808-1882
institution
Boston Public Library
collections
Anti-Slavery Collection
subjects
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, Caroline, 1808-1882
Weston, Anne Warren, 1812-1890
Burns, Anthony, 1834-1862
May, Samuel J. (Samuel Joseph), 1797-1871
Stevenson, Miss
Quincy, Edmund, 1808-1877
Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885
subjectsGeographic
Boston
Massachusetts
North and Central America
Suffolk (county)
United States
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Correspondence
Manuscripts
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Text
country
United States
state
Massachusetts
county
Suffolk
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Boston
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1
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1 leaf (4 p.) ; 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.
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yes
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42.35
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-71.05
notes
Holograph, signed with initials.
Debora Weston begins her letter to Caroline Weston by expressing her anger at "Loring & Co." and others responsible for the arrest of Anthony Burns, a fugitive slave. She discusses the case at length. The operator of T Wharf "gave permission to the slave catchers without consulting owners & was dismissed Friday night ..." The other wharfs were denied to the slave catchers. Debora writes: "The city of Providence has voted not to celebrate the 4th of July, but to toll the bells three times." She tells about Edmund Quincy's nephew. Debora said: "I wish you could have seen Miss Stevenson keeping guard on the side walk [opposite the courthouse]." "Anne was obliged to sit on a sofa in a pro-Slavery umbrella store ... Old Sam May's store was in mourning."
Also with Call No. Ms.A.9.2 v.28, p.16, is a letter to "Dear Folks," perhaps written by Anne Warren Weston, dated Tuesday, June 5, 1854.
There is also an envelope to Mrs. Henry G. Chapman [also known as Maria Weston Chapman], in Paris, France. It is postmarked from Weymouth, Mass., June 6, 1854.
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Weymouth, [Mass.]
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vm418114k
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