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Letter from Anne Warren Weston, Chauncy Pl., [Boston], to Debora Weston, Jan. 15, 1842, Saturday
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title
Letter from Anne Warren Weston, Chauncy Pl., [Boston], to Debora Weston, Jan. 15, 1842, Saturday
description
Holograph.
date
["January 15, 1842"]
year
1842
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language
English
identifierLocal
3132332
creators
Weston, Anne Warren, 1812-1890
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
Weston, Anne Warren, 1812-1890
Weston, Debora, 1814-
Weston, R. Warren (Richard Warren), 1819-1873
Knapp, Jacob, 1799-1874
Adam, William, 1796-1881
Chapman, Mary Gray, 1798-1874
Parker, Theodore, 1810-1860
Boston Female Anti-slavery Society
Channing, William Ellery, 1780-1842
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Boston
Massachusetts
North and Central America
Suffolk (county)
United States
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Correspondence
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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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1 leaf (4 p.) ; 8 x 5 1/4 in.
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42.35
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-71.05
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While spending the day with Henrietta Sargent, Anne W. Weston had an agreeable talk with William Adam, who came down to answer John Quincy Adams, and will lecture in sundry towns, including New Bedford. Dr. (William Ellery) Channing called in his pastoral capacity on Mary Gray Chapman, trying to persuade her to go to some church, or at least to have friends hold a parlor meeting, with Wendell Phillips preaching. Mrs. Maria W. Chapman "excommunicated his church," and Mary G. Chapman mortified Dr. Channing by praising Theordore Parker. R. D. Tucker died of apoplexy. At a meeting of the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society, a Miss Idler from the South joined the Society and "bore a very violent & thorough testimony." Anne W. Weston, Mary G. Chapman, and Wendell Phillips heard Professor Eames of New York lecture before the Diffusion Society. She attended a revival held by Jacob Knapp at the Bowdoin Square (Baptist) Church, and was disappointed because she expected something queer. She gives news of Warren Weston. She asks that Abby Osgood lend her Manzoni's "Promessi Sposi."
The evangelist Jacob Knapp, who is mentioned in the letter, began his mission at the Bowdoin Street Baptist Church on Jan. 9, 1842. See: "Autobiography of Elder Jacob Knapp," New York, 1868, p. 133. See Call No. Ms.A.9.2 v.17, p.33 for Anne W. Weston's discovery that she did not hear Knapp, but another minister, at this time.
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Chauncy Pl., [Boston]
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