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Holograph, signed.
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5h740v83d
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Letter from Evelina A. S. Smith, Hingham, [Mass.], to Caroline Weston, June 25, 1843
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5h740v83d
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normalized
title
Letter from Evelina A. S. Smith, Hingham, [Mass.], to Caroline Weston, June 25, 1843
description
Holograph, signed.
date
["January 25, 1843"]
year
1843
rights
No known copyright restrictions.
rightsUri
No known restrictions on use.
reuseAllowed
no restrictions
language
English
identifierLocal
3133864
creators
Smith, Evelina A. S.
Weston, Caroline, 1808-1882
institution
Boston Public Library
collections
Anti-Slavery Collection
subjects
Abolitionists--Massachusetts--Hingham
Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century
Women abolitionists--Massachusetts--Boston--19th century--Correspondence
Abolitionists--United States
Antislavery movements--United States
Women abolitionists--United States
Weston, Caroline, 1808-1882
Smith, Evelina A. S.
Smith, Increase S.
Stearns, Oliver, 1807-1885
Tyler, John, 1790-1862
Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852
subjectsGeographic
Boston
Hingham
Massachusetts
North and Central America
Plymouth (county)
Suffolk (county)
United States
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Correspondence
Manuscripts
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Text
country
United States
state
Massachusetts
county
Plymouth
city
Hingham
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1
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1 leaf (4 p.) ; 10 x 7 7/8 in.
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yes
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42.2333
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-70.8833
notes
Holograph, signed.
Evelina A. S. Smith has heard very good accounts of the New York and Boston anti-slavery meetings, but she thinks that the New Hampshire meeting at Concord "entirely failed of the intended effect." She refers to "absurdities committed in Boston on the 17th." President Tyler "insulted us by bringing a slave here." Daniel Webster "was evidently crippled, I think, [by his knowledge of conditions] for his speech was a poor affair." Mr. Oliver Stearns, the Hingham minister, has grown conservative in respect to slavery since Miss [Abby] Kelley was here and in religion since Mr. Theodore Parker was here. Mr. Increase S. Smith has been turned out of the Sunday school. Evelina A. S. Smith says: "... the Baptists are very zealous, the Episcopalians are getting up a society, & in fact, to use a much abused expression, every one is inquiring what shall I do to be saved. In all this I have no part or lot & feel that it is all sham."
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Hingham, [Mass.]
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5h740v83d
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document
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