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Holograph, signed.
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wm117z14q
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Letter from Anne Warren Weston, Boston, to Debora Weston, March 11th, 1839
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wm117z14q
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title
Letter from Anne Warren Weston, Boston, to Debora Weston, March 11th, 1839
description
Holograph, signed.
date
["March 11, 1839"]
year
1839
rights
No known copyright restrictions.
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No known restrictions on use.
reuseAllowed
no restrictions
language
English
identifierLocal
3132272
creators
Weston, Anne Warren, 1812-1890
Weston, Debora, 1814-
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, Anne Warren, 1812-1890
Weston, Debora, 1814-
Sargent, Henrietta
Sargent, Epes, 1813-1880
Phillips, Wendell, 1811-1884
Lincoln, Levi, 1782-1868
Boston Female Anti-slavery Society
Bowditch, Henry I. (Henry Ingersoll), 1808-1892
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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 leaf (4 p.) ; 9 7/8 x 7 3/4 in.
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yes
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42.35
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-71.05
notes
Holograph, signed.
Anne Warren Weston recounts the dissensions and affairs of the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society. Comments on sermons by [John Overton?] Choules and Dr. Charles T.C. Follen. Describes a social evening at Henrietta Sargent's, comments on Epes [Sargent] and Dr. Henry [Bowditch]. Anne refers to the "scandalous report" of the Judiciary Committee of the Legislature in respect to the petition of the women of Lynn and Dorchester. At a meeting of the Boston (i.e. Mass.) Anti-Slavery Society, Wendell Phillips made a "beautiful" speech in which he "denounced Lincoln as only fit for the representative of scurrilous & licentious profligates" incapable of understanding the hearts of the women of Lynn. The Legislature are ready to lynch Wendell Phillips. Anne attended a meeting of a committee of the Legislature appointed to hear Sarah Baker, who was accused of forging names on the Dorchester women's petition. Wendell Phillips acted as her counsel, and [George?] Bradburn as a witness; the abolitionists made common cause with her. Anne gives news of family and kin in Weymouth.
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Boston
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