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vm417q448
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Letter from Caroline Weston, Federal St[reet], [Boston], to Anne Warren Weston, June 13th, 1846
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vm417q448
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title
Letter from Caroline Weston, Federal St[reet], [Boston], to Anne Warren Weston, June 13th, 1846
description
Holograph.
date
["June 13, 1846"]
year
1846
rights
No known copyright restrictions.
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No known restrictions on use.
reuseAllowed
no restrictions
language
English
identifierLocal
3132574
creators
Weston, Caroline, 1808-1882
Weston, Anne Warren, 1812-1890
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
Mexican War, 1846-1848
Weston, Caroline, 1808-1882
Weston, Anne Warren, 1812-1890
Foster, Prior
Hathaway, Joseph C.
Lowell, James Russell, 1819-1891
Quincy, Edmund, 1808-1877
Longfellow, Samuel, 1819-1892
American Anti-Slavery Society
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
National anti-slavery standard
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Boston
Massachusetts
North and Central America
Suffolk (county)
United States
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Correspondence
Manuscripts
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Text
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United States
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Massachusetts
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Suffolk
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Boston
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1
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1 leaf (4 p.) ; 9 3/8 x 7 1/4 in.
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yes
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sf268508b
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42.35
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-71.05
notes
Holograph.
Caroline Weston describes a board meeting of the American Anti-Slavery Society, at which the National Anti-Slavery Standard was discussed. Caroline writes that "Garrison was violently in favour of initials," while James R. Lowell and Edmund Quincy were against them. Caroline remarks on William Lloyd Garrison's attitude toward S.H. Gay in regard to the management of the paper. Edmund Quincy was appointed to act for the executive committee for three months. Garrison's proposal to go to England met with lukewarm response. Finally a resolution was passed asking Garrison to represent the American Society abroad. Edmund Lowell "meant in the future to publish all his poetry first in the Standard." He told about Samuel Longfellow's sermon against the Mexican war and the young man from Mississippi who railed against him. The unnamed man from Mississippi said: "I should like to know what God & the Bible have to do with the Mexican War." Prior Foster tried to get $50 out of Mrs. Maria Weston Chapman. The board appointed Joseph C. Hathaway to the post of general agent for New York.
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Federal St[reet], [Boston]
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vm417q448
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