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Holograph, signed.
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Letter from Caroline Weston, Boston, [Mass.], to Anne Warren Weston, 14th March /[18]40
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title
Letter from Caroline Weston, Boston, [Mass.], to Anne Warren Weston, 14th March /[18]40
description
Holograph, signed.
date
["[March 14, 1840]"]
year
1840
rights
No known copyright restrictions.
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No known restrictions on use.
reuseAllowed
no restrictions
language
English
identifierLocal
3132546
creators
Weston, Caroline, 1808-1882
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
Women's rights
Antislavery movements--United States
Women abolitionists--United States
Weston, Caroline, 1808-1882
Weston, Anne Warren, 1812-1890
Davis, George T. (George Thomas), 1810-1871
Whitmarsh
Massachusetts. General Court. House of Representatives
Birney, James Gillespie, 1792-1857
Child, Lydia Maria, 1802-1880
Bradburn, George, 1806-1880
subjectsGeographic
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
state
Massachusetts
county
Suffolk
city
Boston
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2 leaves (8 p.) ; 9 3/4 x 8 in.
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yes
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42.35
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-71.05
notes
Holograph, signed.
Caroline Weston gives news of affairs in town. Mary came with Garrison from Lynn, where they had "a royal time" and the meeting was "deeply interesting." Mrs. Lydia M. Child brought a letter that she had received from James Gillespie Birney in which he protests against her statements in the last Liberator concerning the woman question. Caroline writes: "He appeals to the magnanimity of women--to keep them out of the societies--!!" Lewis Tappan has written "the same sort of letter" to Garrison, in which he denies that his scruples are religious ones. The convention at Abington was "a flat enough concern." Caroline describes the proceedings. She reports on the exciting session in the Mass. Board of Representatives where the "marriage bill" passed a third reading. Henry G. Chapman who was there "in great agitation," thought Boston "equally divided in the matter." The bill now goes to the Senate. Caroline describes the states of mind of George Davis and George Bradburn, both of whom have quarrelled with Whitmarsh.
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Boston, [Mass.]
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