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Holograph, signed.
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7s75fw02d
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Letter from Edmund Quincy, Dedham, [Mass.], to Maria Weston Chapman, Aug. 2, 1842(?)
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title
Letter from Edmund Quincy, Dedham, [Mass.], to Maria Weston Chapman, Aug. 2, 1842(?)
description
Holograph, signed.
date
["[August 2, 1842?]"]
year
1842
rights
No known copyright restrictions.
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No known restrictions on use.
reuseAllowed
no restrictions
language
English
identifierLocal
3133274
creators
Quincy, Edmund, 1808-1877
Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885
institution
Boston Public Library
collections
Anti-Slavery Collection
subjects
Abolitionists--Massachusetts--Dedham
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
Quincy, Edmund, 1808-1877
Chapman, Henry Grafton, 1804-1842
Denison, Charles Wheeler, 1809-1881
Hilton, John Telemachus, 1802-1864
Mellen, G. W. F. (George Washington Frost)
Pierpont, John, 1785-1866
Russell, Philemon R.
Brook Farm Phalanx (West Roxbury, Boston, Mass.)
Follen, Eliza Lee Cabot, 1787-1860
Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885
subjectsGeographic
Boston
Dedham
Massachusetts
Norfolk (county)
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
city
Boston
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1
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1 leaf (4 p.)
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yes
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42.35
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-71.05
notes
Holograph, signed.
In this letter, Edmund Quincy describes a successful celebration [perhaps of the West Indian Emancipation] in Dedham, Mass., attended by some four to five hundred visitors. Quincy said: "[George] Ripley's Community came excepting the sick & they who stayed to take care of them. They excited some astonishment among the plain folk---the men being in blouses & both men & women with garlands of oak-leaves twined around their head--- ..." The speakers were Edmund Quincy, "the tearful [Charles Wheeler] Dennison," John Pierpont, and Mr. [Philomon?] Russell, the minister of Marlboro Chapel. George W. F. Mellen "dispersed the assembly as efficiently as the reading of the riot act." John T. Hilton was the last speaker. "Mrs. Follen was on the ground all day & enjoyed the scene highly. Her nephew Fred Cabot seems a very zealous Abolitionist." Edmund Quincy inquires how [Henry Grafton] Chapman stood the journey to and from Weymouth and urges the Chapmans to spend a day at Dedham. [Henry Grafton Chapman died on Oct. 3, 1842.]
Includes envelope with the delivery address: Mrs. H. G. Chapman, 39 Summer St.
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Dedham, [Mass.]
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