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Letter from Lucia Weston, Weymouth, [Mass.], to Deborah Weston, Tuesday, 8th Feb. 1841

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Title:
Letter from Lucia Weston, Weymouth, [Mass.], to Deborah Weston, Tuesday, 8th Feb. 1841
Author:
Weston, Lucia, 1822-1861
Addressee:
Weston, Deborah, b. 1814
Date:
February 8, 1841
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
Racism
Weston, Lucia, 1822-1861
Weston, Deborah, b. 1814
Chapman, Henry Grafton, 1804-1842
Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885
Places:
Massachusetts > Suffolk (county) > Boston
Extent:
1 leaf (4 p.) ; 10 x 8 in.
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/7s75dn741
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Place of origin:
Weymouth, [Mass.]
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
Lucia Weston tells of her visits to Boston and affairs in Weymouth, while giving special attention to two incipient romances among her friends. She relates an incident of a black family's sitting "at Mr. Spear's meeting" in a section where colored people were not to sit, a place "in back of the singers" being provided for them, and the resulting protest. Henry and Maria Chapman arrived in a carriage with Anne and Caroline Weston. Lucia writes: "H[enry] and M[aria] go to Gonives [sic; Gonaives, Haiti] next Saturday. I thought H[enry] very poorly."
Identifier:
3132833
Call #:
Ms.A.9.2 v.15, p.22
Barcode:
39999063103137
mq8390385