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Holograph, signed.
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qz20vt01d
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Letter from Richard Davis Webb, Dublin, [Ireland], to Maria Weston Chapman, March 8, 1848
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qz20vt01d
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document
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normalized
title
Letter from Richard Davis Webb, Dublin, [Ireland], to Maria Weston Chapman, March 8, 1848
description
Holograph, signed.
date
["March 8, 1848"]
year
1848
rights
No known copyright restrictions.
rightsUri
No known restrictions on use.
reuseAllowed
no restrictions
language
English
identifierLocal
3134073
creators
Webb, Richard Davis, 1805-1872
Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885
institution
Boston Public Library
collections
Anti-Slavery Collection
subjects
Abolitionists--Great Britain
Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century
Women abolitionists--Massachusetts--Boston--19th century--Correspondence
Abolitionists
Antislavery movements--United States
Women abolitionists--United States
Europe--History--1848-1871
Webb, Richard Davis, 1805-1872
Wigham, Eliza
Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885
Liberator (Boston, Mass. : 1831)
subjectsGeographic
Boston
Europe
Massachusetts
North and Central America
Suffolk (county)
United Kingdom
United States
genreBasic
Correspondence
Manuscripts
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Text
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United States
state
Massachusetts
county
Suffolk
city
Boston
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1
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1 leaf (4 p.) ; 8 1/2 x 5 1/4 in.
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yes
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42.35
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-71.05
notes
Holograph, signed.
Richard Davis Webb tells about his wife opening the "Box of [Liberty] Bells." Jane and Eliza Wigham were present and undertook the distribution of the Liberty Bells to Scotland and the north of England. Webb discusses the prospect of Maria Weston Chapman coming to the British Isles. Webb writes: "Dublin is a poor city, Ireland a poor country, and we are no great things ourselves---(though we might not like the people to say so)---but whatever we are we shall be most heartily glad to see you." Webb sends messages to Samuel May, Jr., and Henry C. Wright. He asks Maria W. Chapman to discontinue the Liberator for three Englishmen. He thinks it likely that some of them were "horrified by an article in the last number about Watt's Hymns' which was by no means orthodox." Webb comments on the political situation in Europe. He looks with impatience to the next American mail "for my share of the Annual Budget."
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Dublin, [Ireland]
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qz20vt01d
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document
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1
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