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Holograph, signed.
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7s75dn24t
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Letter from Lucia Weston, Boston, [Mass.], to Debora Weston, Sunday 20th(?), 1839
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7s75dn24t
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normalized
title
Letter from Lucia Weston, Boston, [Mass.], to Debora Weston, Sunday 20th(?), 1839
description
Holograph, signed.
date
["1839"]
year
1839
rights
No known copyright restrictions.
rightsUri
No known restrictions on use.
reuseAllowed
no restrictions
language
English
identifierLocal
3132823
creators
Weston, Lucia, 1822-1861
Weston, Debora, 1814-
institution
Boston Public Library
collections
Anti-Slavery Collection
subjects
Anti-slavery fairs
Abolitionists--Massachusetts--Lowell
Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century
Women abolitionists--Massachusetts--Boston--19th century--Correspondence
Abolitionists--United States
Antislavery movements--United States
Women abolitionists--United States
Weston, Lucia, 1822-1861
Weston, Debora, 1814-
St. Clair, Alanson
Ball, Martha V., 1811-1890
Johnson, Oliver, 1809-1889
Scott, Orange, 1800-1847
Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society
Child, Lydia Maria, 1802-1880
Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885
Collins, John A. (John Anderson), 1810-1879
subjectsGeographic
Boston
Lowell
Massachusetts
Middlesex (county)
North and Central America
Suffolk (county)
United States
genreBasic
Correspondence
Manuscripts
typeOfResource
Text
country
United States
state
Massachusetts
county
Suffolk
city
Boston
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pageCount
1
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extent
1 leaf (4 p.) ; 12 3/4 x 7 5/8 in.
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yes
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sf268508b
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ht24xg10q
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42.35
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-71.05
notes
Holograph, signed.
Lucia Weston describes a meeting in Lowell, Mass., where Orange Scott spoke and moved an adjournment which deprived "the other side" of an opportunity to speak. The mayor of the city offered the town hall to "the right side," and Oliver Johnson and John A. Collins "did very well indeed and allowed [Alanson] St. Clair to speak and he told so many lies that they were perfectly frightened." The "peelers" have organized a new society. Mrs. Maria W. Chapman spoke very well in Salem. Dr. Amos Farnsworth and Oliver Johnson heard William Lloyd Garrison read his address at the Chapman's home and they also listened to Mrs. Chapman read parts of Right and Wrong in Boston. Johnson berated Martha Ball for her hidden desertion of Garrison and the Liberator. Mrs. Lydia Maria Child paid a visit and told amusing stories.
This letter is written on the blank space and pages of a circular (flier) advertising an anti-slavery fair in October, sponsored by the women of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society, with the object to raise funds to sustain Rev. John A. Collins as general agent of the Massachusetts Society.
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Boston, [Mass.]
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7s75dn24t
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document
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1
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