Letter from Richard Davis Webb, Dublin, [Ireland], to Anne Warren Weston, March 11, 1851

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Title:
Letter from Richard Davis Webb, Dublin, [Ireland], to Anne Warren Weston, March 11, 1851
Author:
Webb, Richard Davis, 1805-1872
Addressee:
Weston, Anne Warren, 1812-1890
Date:
March 11, 1851
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, Anne Warren, 1812-1890
Webb, Richard Davis, 1805-1872
Barker, Joseph, 1806-1875
Shackleton, Mary
Places:
Massachusetts > Suffolk (county) > Boston
Extent:
1 leaf (4 p.) ; 10 x 8 in.
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/cv43ps293
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Place of origin:
Dublin, [Ireland]
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
Richard Davis Webb reminisces at length about his boyhood friends in the village of Balliton, which was "a little Quaker Athens." Mary Schackleton is a survivor of the family that owned the school that Richard D. Webb attended in Balliton. Although Schackleton is an invalid, she is nevertheless planning to leave her congenial home surroundings and follow her niece's family to Ohio. When she passes through Boston, Richard D. Webb asks Anne Warren Weston to see her or to arrange for someone to do so. Richard D. Webb thinks that Anne W. Weston would enjoy her "picturesque, racy conversation." Richard D. Webb describes Joseph Barker and his happy family who are "knit together by the isolation which J.B.'s heresy has created around them." Webb comments on the attitude of "Fillmore, Webster, the Boston Corporation & the American aristocracy."
Identifier:
3134294
Call #:
Ms.A.9.2 v.29, p.7
Barcode:
39999066745769
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