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    "title": "Letter from Debora Weston, Weymouth, [Mass.], to Anne Greene Chapman Dicey, 11 March [18]61",
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        "Weston, Debora, 1814-",
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    "collections": [
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        "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-",
        "Dicey, Anne Greene Chapman, d. 1879",
        "Weston, R. Warren (Richard Warren), 1819-1873",
        "Chapman, Mary Gray, 1798-1874"
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        "Holograph, signed with initials.",
        "On page four and the margin of page one of this manuscript, is a letter by Debora Weston to Anne G. Chapman Dicey. Debora gives information and instructions about various family mail. She mentions that a certain letter need not be sent to Warren [Richard Warren Weston] \"for it hurts his eyes & I must write a synopsis.\"",
        "On pages one through three of this manuscript, is a letter from R. Warren Weston to Anne G. Chapman Dicey. Warren assures Anne that he will be glad \"to become a trustee with Henry for your property.\" Warren's only objection is his delicate health. He comments: \"A trustee should be young & tough & I am a tender plant.\" He regrets that Anne's aunt, Mary Chapman, is so ill."
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