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        "Women abolitionists--Massachusetts--Boston--19th century--Correspondence",
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        "Holograph, signed.",
        "Caroline Weston wants to know \"the ultimatum about the New Bedford business.\" She expresses happiness \"with dear dear brother [John A.] Collins at the helm.\" She admits: \"I think indeed that I like C.[ollins] better than I did P.[hillips].\" She describes at length the quarterly meeting of the Essex County Society at Wenham, at which the opposing factions met in a \"desperate game.\" Caroline is no longer troubled with debt. \"Haven't I done well to pay off in a year, & lose as much as I did too--?--\""
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