Letter from Susan Taber, New Bedford, [Massachusetts], to Deborah Weston, 1841 [March] 8

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Title:
Letter from Susan Taber, New Bedford, [Massachusetts], to Deborah Weston, 1841 [March] 8
Description:
Susan Taber writes to Deborah Weston in regards to explaining her silence due to the death of "the little darling" from a "predisposition to brain disease and after many alternatives of hope and fear, dropsy of the head carried her off after a few days of intense suffering that it is even now almost agony to recall." She expresses indignation at the conduct of N[athaniel]. Colver. She reflects that the spread of abolitionist doctrines has unveiled the rotten foundations of many institutions. She is looking for a copy of the "pastoral letter." She comments on the course of lectures given by the poet Richard H. Dana as "far more likely to do harm than good" and she was astonished at the "many weak things that were dealt out to us" in his lecture on woman, the tone of which "was entirely at variance with my Quaker views." The women's anti-slavery society was dissolved at its annual meeting. The young men altered the name of their society prior to the meeting, which as it stands includes all classes and both men and women. A sewing circle will meet as before. She asks when she will see Deborah in New Bedford again.
Author:
Taber, Susan
Addressee:
Weston, Deborah, b. 1814
Date:
[March 8, 1841]
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--Lectures and lecturing--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--Religious aspects--Christianity--United States--History--19th century
Society of Friends--United States--19th century
Women abolitionists--United States
Antislavery movements--United States
Women social reformers--United States
Societies
Lectures and lecturing
Christianity
Society of Friends--History
Weston, Deborah, b. 1814
Taber, Susan
Colver, Nathaniel, 1794-1870
Extent:
1 leaf (4 p.) ; 26 cm.
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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:
5988759
Call #:
MS A.9.2, v.15, p.30
Barcode:
39999085845350