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Holograph, signed with initials.
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Letter from Debora Weston, New Bedford, [Mass.], to Mary Weston, Feb. 24th, 1839, Sunday evening
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Letter from Debora Weston, New Bedford, [Mass.], to Mary Weston, Feb. 24th, 1839, Sunday evening
description
Holograph, signed with initials.
date
["February 24, 1839"]
year
1839
rights
No known copyright restrictions.
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No known restrictions on use.
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no restrictions
language
English
identifierLocal
3132656
creators
Weston, Debora, 1814-
Weston, Mary, 1786-1860
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, Mary, 1786-1860
Weston, Lucia, 1822-1861
Chapman, Henry Grafton, 1833-1883
Phillips, Wendell, 1811-1884
St. Clair, Alanson
Parker, Mary S.
Dickens, Charles, 1719-1793
Weston, Emma Forbes, b. 1825
Grimké, Angelina Emily, 1805-1879
Grimké, Sarah, 1792-1873
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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
state
Massachusetts
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Suffolk
city
Boston
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1 leaf (4 p.) ; 9 3/4 x 7 7/8 in.
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yes
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42.35
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-71.05
notes
Holograph, signed with initials.
On pages 1-3, there is a letter from Debora Weston to Aunt Mary Weston. Debora describes the harbor view from the house. "I see all the ships as they come in... How many barrels has she got in the first question." Debora has been told by Mr. [John F.] Emerson about Wendell Phillips's having been mobbed at the Odeon. "What are the facts of the case?" Debora is troubled at hearing of little Henry Chapman's sickness and longs to take care of him. She expresses indignation at the "N. Yorkers," who are "at the bottom of the new paper." [Alanson] St. Clair is lecturing her, "the villain!" She mentions Caroline Weston's allusion to "something which is preparing for M[ary S.] Parker--a good dose I hope."
On pages 3-4, there is a letter dated March 4th, 1839, from Debora Weston to Lucia Weston. Debora Weston comments on Emma Weston's improved handwriting, and remarks: "She takes a very good model I think in the Grimkes--but as times are now she must not copy anything else about them." Debora is reading the novel, the Pickwick Papers [by Charles Dickens], and finds it melancholy "to have to sit & laugh all by ones-self." She recommends that Lucia begins Latin.
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New Bedford, [Mass.]
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