Letter from Julia A. Tappan, New York, [New York], to Anne Warren Weston, [1837] May 26

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Title:
Letter from Julia A. Tappan, New York, [New York], to Anne Warren Weston, [1837] May 26
Description:
Julia A. Tappan writes to Anne Warren Weston in regards to her previous years as a secretary for her "serving Society" and the materials that were collected, asking her if she would like her to "transport the heavy plates from city to city" or if she would prefer to have her share sent on. She writes that these plates "consist of the slave kneeling under a tree with negroes at work in the distance-2.a mother sitting under a tree with her sick infant 3. some vignettes descriptions of slavers as it existed in the West Indies." She encloses money for Mr. Southard from the Philadelphia and New York anti-slavery societies. She approves of Anne inserting a notice in the Liberator and she will send one to the Emancipator next week. She has parted with Sarah Moore Grimke and Angelina Emily Grimke and is saddened by "the loss of their society & kind connects."
Author:
Tappan, Julia A.
Addressee:
Weston, Anne Warren, 1812-1890
Date:
[May 26, 1837]
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Manuscripts
Location:
Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):
Anti-Slavery Collection
Subjects:
Women abolitionists--United States--19th century--Correspondence
Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century
Women social reformers--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--Anti-slavery fairs--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--Societies, etc--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--Religious aspects--Christianity--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--Publishing--United States--History--19th century
Women abolitionists--United States
Antislavery movements--United States
Women social reformers--United States
Societies
Christianity
Publishers and publishing
Philadelphia Female Anti-slavery Society
Boston Female Anti-slavery Society
Weston, Anne Warren, 1812-1890
Tappan, Julia A.
Grimké, Angelina Emily, 1805-1879
Grimké, Sarah, 1792-1873
Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885
Liberator (Boston, Mass. : 1831)
Emancipator (New York, N.Y. : 1835)
Extent:
1 leaf (3 p.) ; 25 cm.
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/2z1106595
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Place of origin:
New York, [New York]
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
Title devised by cataloger.
Notes (date):
This date is inferred.
Identifier:
5859459
Call #:
MS A.9.2, v.9, p.37
Barcode:
39999085839684