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    "title": "Fragments of letter from Lucia Weston, Weymouth, [Mass.], to Emma Forbes Weston, July 3'd, 1849",
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        "Weston, Lucia, 1822-1861",
        "Weston, Emma Forbes, b. 1825"
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    "collections": [
        "Anti-Slavery Collection"
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    "subjects": [
        "Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century",
        "Women abolitionists--Massachusetts--Boston--19th century--Correspondence",
        "Antislavery movements--United States",
        "Women abolitionists--United States",
        "Weston, Lucia, 1822-1861",
        "Weston, Emma Forbes, b. 1825",
        "Child, Lydia Maria, 1802-1880",
        "Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879"
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        "Holograph.",
        "What remains of this letter is two fragments, enclosed in one piece of mylar. Lucia Weston says that Mr. L. read her a letter from Mrs. Lydia Maria Child. At present, Mrs. Child is devoted to \"[William?] Page the Painter,\" who is thought to have consumption. Lucia Weston repeats a witty \"dig at Garrison\" by Mrs. Child, who derided his predilection for preambles.",
        "Enclosed, is a separate sheet of paper that identifies these letter fragments as: \"Extract from a letter of Lucia Weston's, dated Weymouth, July 3rd, 1849.\""
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