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Holograph, signed.
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wm118445x
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Letter from Caroline Weston, Tabernacle, [New York], to Maria Weston Chapman, Tuesday morning--11 o'clock, [12 May 1846?]
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wm118445x
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document
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normalized
title
Letter from Caroline Weston, Tabernacle, [New York], to Maria Weston Chapman, Tuesday morning--11 o'clock, [12 May 1846?]
description
Holograph, signed.
date
["[May 12, 1846?]"]
year
1846
rights
No known copyright restrictions.
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No known restrictions on use.
reuseAllowed
no restrictions
language
English
identifierLocal
2797273
creators
Weston, Caroline, 1808-1882
Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885
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, Caroline, 1808-1882
Toussaint Louverture, 1743-1803
Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885
Child, David Lee, 1794-1874
Giddings, Joshua R. (Joshua Reed), 1795-1864
Burleigh, Charles C. (Charles Calistus), 1810-1878
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
2 leaves (6 p.) ; 10 x 7 7/8 in. and 4 x 6 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.
This letter was written during a meeting at the Tabernacle. Garrison is in the chair, and the Tabernacle is full, not of the driftwood of New York, but the abolitionists and friends, "mixed with some little of the baser sort & some of the reverend clergy & their abettors." Wendell Phillips's absence is felt deeply. "Toussaint [L'Ouverture] has not come." Garrison opened the meeting; Francis Jackson read the treasurer's report, and Edmund [Quincy] read extracts from the annual report, which was applauded and hissed. Caroline describes the reading of letters from David Lee Child, Joshua Reed Giddings, and the speech of Charles C. Burleigh. She names the people on the platform. Caroline describes her journey to New York; at Norwich they waited two hours for the boat and the New York train ran over a cow. Daniel Webster was on the train, being "looked at as a show would be." On arriving, Caroline found that they were to stay at James Gibbons. "Mrs. [Lydia Maria] Child is off, of course, Mrs. [Eliza Francis] Merriam is here." She describes the impression made by Abby Kelley.
The letter is written in pencil.
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Tabernacle, [New York]
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wm118445x
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document
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1
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photo
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