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Holograph, signed.
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cv43qm14m
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Letter from Richard Davis Webb, Dublin, [Ireland], to Anne Warren Weston, June 17, 1865
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cv43qm14m
contentType
document
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normalized
title
Letter from Richard Davis Webb, Dublin, [Ireland], to Anne Warren Weston, June 17, 1865
description
Holograph, signed.
date
["June 17, 1865"]
year
1865
rights
No known copyright restrictions.
rightsUri
No known restrictions on use.
reuseAllowed
no restrictions
language
English
identifierLocal
2814203
creators
Webb, Richard Davis, 1805-1872
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
Great Britain--History--19th century
Weston, Anne Warren, 1812-1890
Webb, Richard Davis, 1805-1872
Phillips, Wendell, 1811-1884
Webb, Deborah
Weston, Debora, 1814-
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
subjectsGeographic
Boston
Massachusetts
North and Central America
Suffolk (county)
United States
genreBasic
Correspondence
Manuscripts
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Text
country
United States
state
Massachusetts
county
Suffolk
city
Boston
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1
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extent
1 leaf (4 p.) ; 8 x 5 1/2 in.
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yes
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sf268508b
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ht24xg10q
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42.35
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-71.05
notes
Holograph, signed.
Richard Davis Webb gratefully received a newspaper sent to him by Anne Warren Weston. Webb discourses on the British interest in the Civil War. The membership of nearly all public meetings has been ten to one in favor of the North. Pro-southern meetings were generally held behind closed doors. Webb expects that in a few years the English people will be unwilling to admit "that so large a proportion of the aristocracy & ruling classes sympathized with the South." He regrets the split in the anti-slavery ranks. He believes that the efforts of abolitionists should not be relaxed and that the withdrawal of "so many of the ablest veterans of the cause" will give the impression that there is "nothing more to fight for." William Lloyd Garrison and Wendell Phillips should not appear as opponents. Webb has heard from Mary Anne Estlin about the travels of the Laugel family. Webb refers to Debora Weston's visit to Ireland and her return to Durdham Downs. Richard Davis Webb encloses a poem by his daughter, Debora Webb, suggesting the "perplexity into which she was thrown by her mother's death."
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Dublin, [Ireland]
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cv43qm14m
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document
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1
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photo
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