Partial letter from Richard Davis Webb, [Orangehill, Tandragee, County of Armagh, Northern Ireland], to Caroline Weston, [28 March 1852?]

Item Information

Title:
Partial letter from Richard Davis Webb, [Orangehill, Tandragee, County of Armagh, Northern Ireland], to Caroline Weston, [28 March 1852?]
Author:
Webb, Richard Davis, 1805-1872
Addressee:
Weston, Caroline, 1808-1882
Date:
[March 28, 1852?]
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Manuscripts
Location:
Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):
Anti-Slavery Collection
Subjects:
Abolitionists--Poetry
Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century
Women abolitionists--Massachusetts--Boston--19th century--Correspondence
Abolitionists
Antislavery movements--United States
Women abolitionists--United States
Weston, Caroline, 1808-1882
Webb, Richard Davis, 1805-1872
Campbell, John, 1794-1867
Estlin, Mary Anne, 1820-1902
Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885
British banner
Places:
Massachusetts > Suffolk (county) > Boston
Extent:
1 leaf (4 p.) ; 7 1/8 x 4 1/2 in.
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/cv43pq584
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Place of origin:
[Orangehill, Tandragee, County of Armagh, Northern Ireland]
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
The beginning of this letter is missing.
Richard Davis Webb tells of a plan conceived by a lady of his acquaintance to publish an anthology of anti-slavery poetry, and he tells of his help in the project. Webb asks Caroline Weston to tell Mrs. Maria Weston Chapman that he is "a little vain" because he has anticipated her wishes by not mentioning her name in the reply he has prepared to Tappan's pamphlet. On the other hand, Webb anticipated her permission in "freely appropriating the thunder" found in her letters and papers furnished by the Estlins. The Estlin's have suggested amendments to the reply. Webb tells of Miss Estlin's plan "to confute Dr. Campbell & his [British] Banner by publishing choice scraps of their writer in parallel columns with counter statements of honest people."
Identifier:
3134141
Call #:
Ms.A.9.2 v.26, p.22
Barcode:
39999066745405
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