Letter from Joseph Congdon, New Bedford, [Massachusetts], to Deborah Weston, 1837 [December] 31

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Title:
Letter from Joseph Congdon, New Bedford, [Massachusetts], to Deborah Weston, 1837 [December] 31
Description:
Joseph Congdon writes to Deborah Weston in regards to thanking her for sending a copy of "Right and Wrong" and his delight in reading it. He writes, "I admire this little work not only for its noble advocacy of great and important principles, but for the beautiful manner in which its author spirtualizes common events." He writes of being "very much startled" at the hearing of the Alton tragedy, in which Elijah Parish Lovejoy, an abolitionist and newspaper editor was killed during a pro-slavery mob in Alton, Illinois on November 7, 1837. He asks, "are you sound in Boston?-I want to know if there is anything in that Robinson business which giving a different appearance to it from the newspaper colorings-It would seem from what they tell us, that the abduction of the child was not a very commendable engagement-I have never conducted clearly their plea for doing so." He has heard of her successful sales last week.
Author:
Congdon, Joseph
Addressee:
Weston, Deborah, b. 1814
Date:
[December 31, 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
Antislavery movements--Publishing--United States--History--19th century
Abolitionists--Violence against--United States--History--19th century
Women social reformers--United States--History--19th century
Women abolitionists--United States
Antislavery movements--United States
Publishers and publishing
Abolitionists--United States
Violence
Women social reformers--United States
Weston, Deborah, b. 1814
Congdon, Joseph
Taber, Susan
Lovejoy, Elijah P. (Elijah Parish), 1802-1837
Extent:
1 leaf (4 p.) ; 25 cm.
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/2z1109267
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Place of origin:
New Bedford, [Massachusetts]
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
Title devised by cataloger.
Notes (date):
This date is inferred.
Identifier:
5863616
Call #:
MS A.9.2, v.9, p.110
Barcode:
39999085839866