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vm418033k
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Letter from Debora Weston, New Bedford, [Mass.], to Anne Warren Weston, Oct. 1845, Sunday evening
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vm418033k
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document
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normalized
title
Letter from Debora Weston, New Bedford, [Mass.], to Anne Warren Weston, Oct. 1845, Sunday evening
description
Holograph.
date
["October 1845"]
year
1845
rights
No known copyright restrictions.
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No known restrictions on use.
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no restrictions
language
English
identifierLocal
3132733
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
Racism
Weston, Debora, 1814-
Weston, Anne Warren, 1812-1890
White, William Abijah, 1818-1856
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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
country
United States
state
Massachusetts
county
Suffolk
city
Boston
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1
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extent
2 leaves (5 p.) ; 9 x 7 1/2 in.
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yes
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42.35
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-71.05
notes
Holograph.
Debora Weston writes this letter tonight instead of writing in her journal. She enumerates the people she's seen. Thomas Greene talked to her about "the Lyceum difficulty." She gives details of this affair, which involved the refusal to sell tickets to black people. She tells of a successful meeting and names the people who gave money. They worked hard for the fair all Sunday afternoon. Debora is glad to hear of William A. White's engagement, as "it will take him out of E.G.L.'s [E. G. Loring] hand & put him into Mrs. Follen's more."
The second sheet bears the address: Miss Emma Forbes Weston, 53 Federal Street, Boston, Mass. And a brief note by Debora Weston. She mentions a steamship and that things will come on Tuesday. They may have to "walk out in the face of N B & it will be well to have a good bonnet on."
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New Bedford, [Mass.]
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vm418033k
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document
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1
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0
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