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Holograph, signed with initials.
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wm118j37q
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Letter from Anne Warren Weston, Weymouth, [Mass.], to Maria Weston Chapman, Aug. 22, 1848
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title
Letter from Anne Warren Weston, Weymouth, [Mass.], to Maria Weston Chapman, Aug. 22, 1848
description
Holograph, signed with initials.
date
["August 22, 1848"]
year
1848
rights
No known copyright restrictions.
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No known restrictions on use.
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no restrictions
language
English
identifierLocal
3132387
creators
Weston, Anne Warren, 1812-1890
Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885
institution
Boston Public Library
collections
Anti-Slavery Collection
subjects
Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century
Women abolitionists--Massachusetts--Boston--19th century--Correspondence
Third parties (United States politics)
Antislavery movements--United States
Women abolitionists--United States
Weston, Anne Warren, 1812-1890
Leavitt, Joshua, 1794-1873
Jackson, Edmund, 1795-1875
Lowell, James Russell, 1819-1891
Phillips, Wendell, 1811-1884
Free Soil Party (U.S.)
Liberty Party (U.S. : 1840-1848)
Gay, Sydney Howard, 1814-1888
Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885
Foster, Abby Kelley, 1811-1887
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Boston
Massachusetts
North and Central America
Suffolk (county)
United States
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Correspondence
Manuscripts
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United States
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Massachusetts
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Suffolk
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Boston
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1 leaf (2 p.) ; 10 x 8 1/8 in.
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yes
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42.35
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notes
Holograph, signed with initials.
Anne Warren Weston remarks: "All the country is going [sic] the Free Soil question. The 3d party is completely merged in it." Joshua Leavitt was on of the committee to draw up resolutions. J.R. Lowell has written a good piece for the National Anti-Slavery Standard, and E. Quincy wrote a piece for the Liberator. Abby Kelley is "showing some natural folly, the report is 'watering her pillow with her tears' for fear the Old Org-Abolitionists should go over to Free Soil...She does not see the difference, I apprehend, between the present movement and Liberty Party and as she innocently played into the hands of Liberty Party she is afraid of doing the same thing again." People say that E. Jackson will vote the Free Soil ticket. Anne thinks that Wendell Phillips probably intends to "do whatever fighting of this party is needful." Dr. Amos Farnsworth has spent the day here. "Wendell [Phillips] writes me that the Board have borrowed $2000 for Sydney [H. Gay]."
In the postscript, Anne reports the death of Rachel Cowing. She also says that there will be a great Free Soil ratification meeting at Faneuil Hall tonight.
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Weymouth, [Mass.]
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