Letter from Isaac Stearns, Mansfield, [Massachusetts], to Anne Warren Weston, 1836 Dec[ember] 30

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Title:
Letter from Isaac Stearns, Mansfield, [Massachusetts], to Anne Warren Weston, 1836 Dec[ember] 30
Description:
Isaac Stearns Jr writes to Anne Warren Weston in regards to receiving the petition to Congress to abolish the slave trade in the District of Columbia issued by the Boston Female anti-slavery society. He has obtained nearly 200 signatures of the women of Mansfield. He writes that they've received some criticism on the "bad appearance of the petition" and he advises that the "ladies ought to bear greater marks of neatness. But when it is considered that the population of this town are scattered over an[sic] content of six miles square and the petitions being called up and unrolled so many times and handled by such a variety of hands under all circumstances, it is not so much to be as ordered at." He apologizes for getting the petition wet during his travels from house to house. He encountered a mob on October 10th in his neighborhood and says that a majority of voters are "heartily ashamed of their conduct" but the "likened cause of abolition is onward."
Author:
Stearns, Isaac, 1790-1879
Addressee:
Weston, Anne Warren, 1812-1890
Date:
December 30, 1836
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--Societies, etc--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--Congresses--United States--History--19th century
Abolitionists--Violence against--United States--History--19th century
Women abolitionists--United States
Antislavery movements--United States
Women social reformers--United States
Societies
Congresses and conventions
Abolitionists--United States
Violence
Boston Female Anti-slavery Society
Weston, Anne Warren, 1812-1890
Stearns, Isaac, 1790-1879
Extent:
2 leaves (4 p.) ; 26 cm.
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Place of origin:
Mansfield, [Massachusetts]
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
Title devised by cataloger.
Identifier:
5870478
Call #:
MS A.9.2, v.8, p.83
Barcode:
39999085840005