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Holograph, signed with initials.
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vm417b22z
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Letter from Anne Warren Weston, Poplar Street, [Boston], to Debora Weston, Jan. 25, 1842
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vm417b22z
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title
Letter from Anne Warren Weston, Poplar Street, [Boston], to Debora Weston, Jan. 25, 1842
description
Holograph, signed with initials.
date
["January 25, 1842"]
year
1842
rights
No known copyright restrictions.
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No known restrictions on use.
reuseAllowed
no restrictions
language
English
identifierLocal
3132334
creators
Weston, Anne Warren, 1812-1890
Weston, Debora, 1814-
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
Freed persons
Weston, Anne Warren, 1812-1890
Weston, Debora, 1814-
Lane, Lunsford, 1803-approximately 1863
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
Perkins, Jonas, 1790-1874
Normanby, Constantine Henry Phipps, Marquess of, 1797-1863
Nichol, Elizabeth Pease, 1807-1897
Cabot, Anna
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Boston
Massachusetts
North and Central America
Suffolk (county)
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.) ; 11 3/8 x 7 3/4 in.
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yes
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42.35
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-71.05
notes
Holograph, signed with initials.
Anne W. Weston describes cloaks made for her sisters and herself. She dwells on the "iniquity" of Mr. Perkins, who refused his pulpit to Cyrus Burleigh and (John M.) Spear. He did, however, take up a collection for Lunsford Lane on Sunday afternoon. In the evening, while eight people attended Jonas Perkins' prayer meeting, the Universalist House was "thronged to suffocation." There, Lunsford Lane told his story and answered questions "in a manner admirably calculated to produce a good effect for the cause." The total collection amounted to $64. Anne reports on the health of the Chapmans at Chauncy Place, and on business matters. She encloses a letter from E. Pease. "Boz arrived with his wife & was last night at the theatre ... Nickelby was acted & then a sort of masque where all Dicken's principal characters appeared. They gave Dickens three times three ..." The Earl of Mulgrave is here, too. "He is sort of anti slavery having behaved well as Gov. of Jamaica." Anna Cabot is engaged to a son of Giles Lodge.
Lunsford Lane, who Anne refers to in her letter, was a slave from North Carolina who had purchased his own freedom and was trying to buy his family out of slavery. For more information, see the book: Lunsford Lane; or, Another Helper from North Carolina. By the Rev. William G. Hawkins, Boston, 1863.
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Poplar Street, [Boston]
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vm417b22z
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