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Holograph, signed with initials.
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wm118763g
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Letter from Debora Weston, New Bedford, [Mass.], to Anne Warren Weston, March 1st, 1840, Sunday morning
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wm118763g
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title
Letter from Debora Weston, New Bedford, [Mass.], to Anne Warren Weston, March 1st, 1840, Sunday morning
description
Holograph, signed with initials.
date
["March 1, 1840"]
year
1840
rights
No known copyright restrictions.
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No known restrictions on use.
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no restrictions
language
English
identifierLocal
3132713
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
Weston, Debora, 1814-
Weston, Anne Warren, 1812-1890
Emerson, John F.
Morrison, Mr.
Peabody, Ephraim, 1807-1856
Benevolent Society (New Bedford, Mass.)
Follen, Eliza Lee Cabot, 1787-1860
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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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2 leaves (6 p.) ; 10 x 8 in.
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yes
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42.35
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-71.05
notes
Holograph, signed with initials.
Debora Weston begins the letter by informing Anne Warrren Weston that "yesterday afternoon I went petitioning as usual." She tells of a prediction that "violence and bloodshed must be the end of it [slavery]." Old Mrs. Rodman refused to sign a petition, saying that she would never petition "such a set of men as there are in Congress..." The newly organized Benevolent Society requested the local ministers to read the notice of a meeting. Debora quotes a conversation between John F. Emerson and a local minister who didn't want to read the notice of a meeting. Mrs. Emerson told Debora about her trouble with her churches. She describes John Briggs, deacon of Mrs. Emerson's church, as a "grand inquistor general." Debora went to the meeting of the Benevolent Society and signed the constitution. The Society is Morrison's "thunder." Ephraim Peabody addressed the Society. Mr. Morrison told Debora that Dr. Channing was "surprised that Mrs. Follen dwelt so much upon the outward, the wreck and the fire and the cotton bales..."
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New Bedford, [Mass.]
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