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Holograph, signed.
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Document identity
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qz20v528w
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Letter from Edmund Quincy, Dedham, [Mass.], to Caroline Weston, Feb. 9, 1841
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document
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1
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qz20v528w
contentType
document
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normalized
title
Letter from Edmund Quincy, Dedham, [Mass.], to Caroline Weston, Feb. 9, 1841
description
Holograph, signed.
date
["February 9, 1841"]
year
1841
rights
No known copyright restrictions.
rightsUri
No known restrictions on use.
reuseAllowed
no restrictions
language
English
identifierLocal
2808810
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
Bassett, William, 1803-1871
Parker, Theodore, 1810-1860
Foster, Abby Kelley, 1811-1887
Whittier, Elizabeth, 1815-1864
Collins, John A. (John Anderson), 1810-1879
subjectsGeographic
Boston
Massachusetts
North and Central America
Suffolk (county)
United States
genreBasic
Correspondence
Manuscripts
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Text
country
United States
state
Massachusetts
county
Suffolk
city
Boston
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pageCount
1
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import
extent
1 leaf (4 p.) ; 9 3/4 x 7 7/8 in.
hasTranscription
yes
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sf268508b
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ht24xg10q
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42.35
schema:longitude
-71.05
notes
Holograph, signed.
Edmund Quincy has written a long letter to John A. Collins with the facts and details of the annual meeting. In reference to Caroline Weston's "transmission of documents to Eng[lan]d," Edmund Quincy remarks that female abolitionists are "more executive than most of the brethren." Edmund Quincy lectured to Quakers in Lynn. While staying with William Bassett, Edmund Quincy saw Abby Kelley and Elizabeth(?) Whittier, the sister of J. G. Whittier, "a little Quakeress with tremendous black eyes." Edmund Quincy tells of a session with a phrenologist named Coombs. He mentions a sermon by Theodore Parker, in which it was stated that the anti-slavery and non-resistance movements were the only manifestations of Christianity without Emersonian or Channingian qualifications.
pubPlace
Dedham, [Mass.]
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qz20v528w
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document
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1
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0
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photo
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