Letter from Richard Davis Webb, Dublin, [Ireland], to Maria Weston Chapman, November 12, 1850

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Title:
Letter from Richard Davis Webb, Dublin, [Ireland], to Maria Weston Chapman, November 12, 1850
Author:
Webb, Richard Davis, 1805-1872
Addressee:
Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885
Date:
November 12, 1850
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
Webb, Richard Davis, 1805-1872
Brown, Henry Box, 1815 or 1816-
Brown, William Wells, 1814?-1884
Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885
Places:
Massachusetts > Suffolk (county) > Boston
Extent:
2 leaves (7 p.) ; 8 1/2 x 5 1/4 in.
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/cv43pp685
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Place of origin:
Dublin, [Ireland]
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
In this letter, Richard Davis Webb tells of his travels in Switzerland. He discusses the copyright of Maria Weston Chapman's book. He will consult with Charles Gilpin(?) about what can be done. Henry "Box" Brown has arrived in England with a "Panorama of Slavery." William Wells Brown will not like this competion with his "Panorama." Richard D. Webb received a long letter from John Bishop Estlin "at Clevedon 12 miles from Bristol." "I don't think much of Chapman [the publisher]. I had some such dealings with him..." Webb considers himself a free thinker. He condemns the Fugitive Slave Law. He notes the absence of young and middle age men at the Faneuil Hall meeting on the Fugitive Slave Law. The Juliot family has suffered much from ill health in Ohio. They think that the "standard of liberty among their neighbors is not equal to that of England."
Identifier:
3134291
Call #:
Ms.A.9.2 v.25, p.42
Barcode:
39999066745736
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