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Incomplete letter from Debora Weston, New Bedford, [Mass.], to Anne Warren Weston, Jan. 22, 1836, Sunday evening [through Jan. 25, 1836]
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Incomplete letter from Debora Weston, New Bedford, [Mass.], to Anne Warren Weston, Jan. 22, 1836, Sunday evening [through Jan. 25, 1836]
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Holograph.
date
["January 22, 1836–January 25, 1836"]
year
1836
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no restrictions
language
English
identifierLocal
2797368
creators
Weston, Debora, 1814-
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
Weston, Debora, 1814-
Weston, Anne Warren, 1812-1890
Phillips, Wendell, 1811-1884
Phillips, Ann Terry Greene, 1813-1886
Hildreth, Richard, 1807-1865
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Boston
Massachusetts
North and Central America
Suffolk (county)
United States
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Correspondence
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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 leaf (4 p.) ; 10 x 7 7/8 in.
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42.35
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-71.05
notes
Holograph.
Incomplete letter; the last part of the letter is missing. This letter was written over the course of four consecutive days.
Debora Weston accounces that Wendell Phillips is to be here. Debora is worried about Anne W. Weston's health. Debora has 25 scholars. She describes the conspicuous politeness of a Mrs. Chase, whose young son had written her enthusiastically about the anti-slavery fair (in Boston). She remarks on the state of abolitionists here: "I have no pleasure in any of these brethren...I don't fellowship anything here." On Tuesday, Jan. 24, Debora writes about Wendell Phillips's visit. "His lecture before the Lyceum this evening was considered very fine, slightly whiggy & rather conservative." In a conversation about "The Slave," Wendell Phillips said "that it was said at one time that [Richard] Hildreth wrote it." [The "Slave" referred to is the book, The Slave; or Memoirs of Archy Moore, by Richard Hildreth, published anonymously in 1836; a later edition was entitled only Memoirs of Archy Moore.] Debora Weston said, "I like Wendell [Phillips]. I think Ann Terry has done very well." [Ann Terry was Ann Terry Greene, who married Wendell Phillips in 1837.]
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New Bedford, [Mass.]
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