Letter from Lucia Weston, Boston, [Mass.], to Deborah Weston, January 22 [through Jan. 31, 1837]

Item Information

Title:
Letter from Lucia Weston, Boston, [Mass.], to Deborah Weston, January 22 [through Jan. 31, 1837]
Author:
Weston, Lucia, 1822-1861
Addressee:
Weston, Deborah, b. 1814
Date:
[January 22, 1837–January 31, 1837]
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Manuscripts
Location:
Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):
Anti-Slavery Collection
Subjects:
Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century
Women abolitionists--Massachusetts--Boston--19th century--Correspondence
Antislavery movements--United States
Women abolitionists--United States
Weston, Lucia, 1822-1861
Weston, Deborah, b. 1814
Dresser, Amos, 1812-1904
Places:
Massachusetts > Suffolk (county) > Boston
Extent:
1 leaf (4 p.) ; 9 7/8 x 7 3/4 in.
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/7s75dm74t
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Place of origin:
Boston, [Mass.]
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
Lucia Weston hopes that Deborah Weston will come to a meeting on the 25th. She mentions Orange Scott, Ellis Gray Loring, Henry B. Stanton, and Amos Dresser as prospective speakers. Lucia continues writing this letter on Thursday, [January] 26 through Tuesday, [January 31]. Lucia tells about the pledges for money made at a meeting. Lucia is president of the ladies' society and she lists the members of her family who hold office in various abolitionist organizations. She describes Amos Dresser. She went to a meeting called to raise money for the Liberator newspaper. She ends the letter with family news.
On the first page of the stationary is an engraving by P. Reason, entitled "A Colored Young Man of the City of New York," 1835. Lucia Weston explains: "Though you are not an oppressor, I write to you on this paper because I had no other in the house."
Notes (date):
This date is inferred.
Identifier:
3132818
Call #:
Ms.A.9.2 v.3, p.90
Barcode:
39999063098980
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