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5h740v88s
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Letter from Edmund Quincy, Dedham, [Mass.], to Caroline Weston, July 9, 1843
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5h740v88s
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normalized
title
Letter from Edmund Quincy, Dedham, [Mass.], to Caroline Weston, July 9, 1843
description
Holograph.
date
["July 9, 1843"]
year
1843
rights
No known copyright restrictions.
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No known restrictions on use.
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no restrictions
language
English
identifierLocal
2809531
creators
Quincy, Edmund, 1808-1877
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, Caroline, 1808-1882
Quincy, Edmund, 1808-1877
Gibbons, J. S. (James Sloan), 1810-1892
American Anti-Slavery Society
Child, Lydia Maria, 1802-1880
Foster, Stephen S. (Stephen Symonds), 1809-1881
Collins, John A. (John Anderson), 1810-1879
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
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Boston
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1
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1 leaf (4 p.) ; cm.
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yes
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42.35
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-71.05
notes
Holograph.
Edmund Quincy writes this letter in a humorous vein: "King James [Sloan Gibbons] sways his lawful scepter unmolested and the baffled conspirators are mourning over the ruin of their hopes.Truly he is a new proof of the wisdom of the Chancellor Oxenstieras saying that it is marvellous how little wisdom it takes to govern the world." Edmund Quincy does not think that James S. Gibbons "had sense enough to show our letters to Mrs. [Lydia Maria] Child who would have understood them." He thinks that at the next annual meeting "the whole Hopper clique" will be removed and Jones put in to stand for the American Society at New York. He commends the progress of the Hundred Conventions. Charles L. Remond has consented to go into the field at $100 per annum. Edmund Quincy quotes an ironic remark about Stephen S. Foster and his "courting expenses." He comments on the resiliency of John A. Collins's health.
The end of this letter is missing.
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Dedham, [Mass.]
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5h740v88s
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