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Holograph, signed.
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Document identity
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7s75dn741
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Letter from Lucia Weston, Weymouth, [Mass.], to Debora Weston, Tuesday, 8th Feb. 1841
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document
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1
Source metadata
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7s75dn741
contentType
document
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normalized
title
Letter from Lucia Weston, Weymouth, [Mass.], to Debora Weston, Tuesday, 8th Feb. 1841
description
Holograph, signed.
date
["February 8, 1841"]
year
1841
rights
No known copyright restrictions.
rightsUri
No known restrictions on use.
reuseAllowed
no restrictions
language
English
identifierLocal
3132833
creators
Weston, Lucia, 1822-1861
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
Racism
Weston, Lucia, 1822-1861
Weston, Debora, 1814-
Chapman, Henry Grafton, 1804-1842
Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885
subjectsGeographic
Boston
Massachusetts
North and Central America
Suffolk (county)
United States
genreBasic
Correspondence
Manuscripts
typeOfResource
Text
country
United States
state
Massachusetts
county
Suffolk
city
Boston
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pageCount
1
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import
extent
1 leaf (4 p.) ; 10 x 8 in.
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yes
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sf268508b
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ht24xg10q
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42.35
schema:longitude
-71.05
notes
Holograph, signed.
Lucia Weston tells of her visits to Boston and affairs in Weymouth, while giving special attention to two incipient romances among her friends. She relates an incident of a black family's sitting "at Mr. Spear's meeting" in a section where colored people were not to sit, a place "in back of the singers" being provided for them, and the resulting protest. Henry and Maria Chapman arrived in a carriage with Anne and Caroline Weston. Lucia writes: "H[enry] and M[aria] go to Gonives [sic; Gonaives, Haiti] next Saturday. I thought H[enry] very poorly."
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Weymouth, [Mass.]
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7s75dn741
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document
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1
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0
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photo
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