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Incomplete letter from Debora Weston, Weymouth, [Mass.], to Anne Warren Weston, April 15, 1851, Tuesday afternoon
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vm4181007
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title
Incomplete letter from Debora Weston, Weymouth, [Mass.], to Anne Warren Weston, April 15, 1851, Tuesday afternoon
description
Holograph.
date
["April 15, 1851"]
year
1851
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language
English
identifierLocal
2799062
creators
Weston, Debora, 1814-
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
Weston, Debora, 1814-
Weston, Anne Warren, 1812-1890
Chapman, Mary Gray, 1798-1874
Colver, Nathaniel, 1794-1870
Fifield, Mary
Loring, Ellis Gray, 1803-1858
Parker, Theodore, 1810-1860
Phillips, Wendell, 1811-1884
Phillips, Ann Terry Greene, 1813-1886
Quincy, Edmund, 1808-1877
Rantoul, Robert, Jr., 1805-1852
Sewall, Samuel E. (Samuel Edmund), 1799-1888
Sims, Thomas, approximately 1834-
Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852
Weston, R. Warren (Richard Warren), 1819-1873
Weston, Warren, 1780-1855
Vigilance Committee (Boston, Mass.)
Bearse, Austin
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Boston
Massachusetts
North and Central America
Suffolk (county)
United States
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Correspondence
Manuscripts
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Text
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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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4 leaves (8 p.) ; 10 x 7 7/8 in. + 1 envelope (3 x 5 1/2 in.)
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Holograph.
The last page/s of this letter is missing.
Debora Weston writes that "Mary Chapman has shown a great deal of interest & spunk in this matter--for her--& talked very reasonably & feelingly." [The is perhaps a reference to the case of Thomas Sims, a fugitive slave.] Debora continues: "My private opinion was that Theodore Parker shrunk in the wetting ... I did not think he stood by Wendell, neither did Ann Terry ..." "We were so far successful that Simms [sic] was carried off in the gray of the morning, with 11 companies under arms in Faneuil Place ..." Debora praises Sam Sewall, Ellis G. Loring, and Robert Rantoul for the fight they made. She says that the "Committee of Vigilance did as well as they knew how." Austin Bearse thought a ship captain could have been bribed. She praises Wendell Phillips at length. She comments that "I never saw anything equal to Ann Terry's grit, ..." Debora extols the courage of Samuel May, Jr., and his family. She describes Mrs. Ann Terry Phillips's experiences, which included a visit by Edmund Quincy. Mrs. Grafton died of cancer. She writes that "J. H. Clifford has I suppose lied in public about this writ of replevin ..." Theodore Parker preached to a full audience in Tremont Temple. She describes N. Colver's behavior at an anti-slavery meeting. The mayor and alderman refused Faneuil Hall to Daniel Webster. She thinks Warren Weston's health will improve when the weather gets warmer. Mrs. Fifield lent a book to Debora. A man named Baker, Warren Weston, Sr., and Debora Weston had an argument over the location of a barn.
Includes an envelope addressed to Miss Weston, Goodhue & Co., New York, N.Y.
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Weymouth, [Mass.]
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vm4181007
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