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Holograph, signed with initials.
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wm118k297
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Letter from Anne Warren Weston, 26 Essex St., Boston, to Caroline Weston, Monday afternoon, [1849 May 22?]
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wm118k297
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title
Letter from Anne Warren Weston, 26 Essex St., Boston, to Caroline Weston, Monday afternoon, [1849 May 22?]
description
Holograph, signed with initials.
date
["[May 22, 1849?]"]
year
1849
rights
No known copyright restrictions.
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No known restrictions on use.
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no restrictions
language
English
identifierLocal
3132395
creators
Weston, Anne Warren, 1812-1890
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, Anne Warren, 1812-1890
Weston, Caroline, 1808-1882
Alcott, Amos Bronson, 1799-1888
Goode, Washington, -1849
Phillips, Wendell, 1811-1884
Weston, Emma Forbes, b. 1825
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882
Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 1823-1911
Collins, Eunice Messenger
Town & Country Club
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Boston
Massachusetts
North and Central America
Suffolk (county)
United States
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Correspondence
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Text
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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.)
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42.35
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-71.05
notes
Holograph, signed with initials.
Anne Warren Weston found Ann Phillips "raving with indignation" at an execution that Wendell Phillips labored to prevent. It was the case of a black man named Goode. "We carried round a petition in Weymouth & got 400 names...but that wretched [Governor] Briggs refused" to commute the sentence. Anne gives a description of her sisters' bonnets. People are looking at Emma (who is to go to France) "as if she had been elected to some wondrous dignity." She tells of the "Town & Country Club," which was "a scheme got up by [Ralph] Waldo Emerson to give Mr. [Amos Bronson] Alcott a living." It has about 90 members, among them Longfellow, Lowell, Garrison, and Parker. "There has been a terrible fight whether women should be admitted." (Thomas) Wentworth Higginson was to propose Mrs. Follen, but someone has proposed Maria (W. Chapman). Eunice (Mrs. John A.) Collins died of consumption.
See Call No. Ms.A.9.2 v.24, p.122B, for the accompanying envelope.
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26 Essex St., Boston
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wm118k297
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