Letter from Elizabeth Pease Nichol, [Boston, Massachusetts], to Anne Warren Weston, [1840] Sept[ember] 27

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Title:
Letter from Elizabeth Pease Nichol, [Boston, Massachusetts], to Anne Warren Weston, [1840] Sept[ember] 27
Description:
Elizabeth Pease Nichol writes to Anne Warren Weston in regards to her stay at Ilkley and how she has been undergoing the "cold water system" which has considerably benefited her health but it has not done much for her palpitations. She writes that her thoughts go to the "dear little band of devoted labourers in Boston." If she is blessed with a renewal of health and strength, she would wish her remaining days be spent "to the good of my fellow creatures." She sympathizes with Garrison in the illness of his family. She asks Anne what her real opinion is of Garrison's "own state-are you apprehensive...?"...It seems impossible to keep him in check." Nichol is concerned for both Garrison and Henry C. Wright. Wright has been traveling with Amasa Walker and they are now in Manchester. She fears that Walker's health is not much better. He has had "a pleasant little peep" at Samuel May Jr. as he passed through Darlington and Dr. Farmsworth's visit was shorter than she expected. She longs to see Miss Weston but in her region there is few "who have many Old Organization predilections." She is convinced however, that it is "gradually rising above the wounds which [James Gillespie] Birney & co. inflicted." She discusses the contributions to the Boston anti-slavery fair. They are preparing a box from Glasgow. She writes that [John Anderson.] Collins and N[athaniel].P[eabody]. Rogers are no longer upsetting themselves about the letter in the Herald. She comments on Walker's attitude towards Joshua Leavitt and on the special pleading with his "third party." She writes, "Tell me, A-they find fault with or contradict what I said about it in the letter to W.L.G...what appears in the Liberator."
Author:
Nichol, Elizabeth Pease, 1807-1897
Addressee:
Weston, Anne Warren, 1812-1890
Date:
[September 27, 1840]
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--Anti-slavery fairs--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--Newspapers--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--Publishing--United States--History--19th century
Women social reformers--United States--History--19th century
Women abolitionists--United States
Antislavery movements--United States
Publishers and publishing
Women social reformers--United States
Walker, Amasa, 1799-1875
Leavitt, Joshua, 1794-1873
Wright, Henry Clarke, 1797-1870
May, Samuel J. (Samuel Joseph), 1797-1871
Weston, Anne Warren, 1812-1890
Nichol, Elizabeth Pease, 1807-1897
Birney, James Gillespie, 1792-1857
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
Rogers, Nathaniel Peabody, 1794-1846
Collins, John A. (John Anderson), 1810-1879
Liberator (Boston, Mass. : 1831)
Extent:
1 leaf (4 p.) ; 21 cm. + 1 envelope (7 x 10 cm.)
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Place of origin:
[Boston, Massachusetts]
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
Title devised by cataloger.
Letter includes envelope addressed to Anne Warren Weston. "Saved by A. Walker."
Notes (date):
This date is inferred.
Identifier:
5870778
Call #:
MS A.9.2, v.6, p.15
Barcode:
39999085840765