Letter from Lydia Maria Child, New York, to John Sullivan Dwight, Oct. 23d, 1844

Item Information

Title:
Letter from Lydia Maria Child, New York, to John Sullivan Dwight, Oct. 23d, 1844
Addressee:
Dwight, John Sullivan, 1813-1893
Author:
Child, Lydia Maria, 1802-1880
Date:
October 23, 1844
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Manuscripts
Location:
Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):
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
Dwight, John Sullivan, 1813-1893
Child, Lydia Maria, 1802-1880
Places:
Massachusetts > Suffolk (county) > Boston
Extent:
1 leaf (4 p.) ; 10 x 8 in.
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/wm118h80s
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Place of origin:
New York
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
Child praises the violinist, Ole Bull. Criticizes a French clique who underrated him. Asks Dwight to write an article on Ole Bull for the Democratic Review.
For reference to this letter and others connected with it, see pages 75-82, in George Willis Cooke's book, John Sullivan Dwight : brook-farmer, editor, and critic of music : a biography, (1898).
Above the salutation is the note by Child: Please not read this letter to strangers. I have written with too much abandon for the public eye.
Identifier:
3132181
Call #:
MS E.4.1 no.48
Barcode:
39999063212854
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