Letter from Richard Davis Webb, Printing Office, 177, Great Brunswick street, Dublin, [Ireland], to Anne Warren Weston, 6th of November 1861

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Title:
Letter from Richard Davis Webb, Printing Office, 177, Great Brunswick street, Dublin, [Ireland], to Anne Warren Weston, 6th of November 1861
Author:
Webb, Richard Davis, 1805-1872
Addressee:
Weston, Anne Warren, 1812-1890
Date:
November 6, 1861
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
Great Britain--History--19th century
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Weston, Anne Warren, 1812-1890
Webb, Richard Davis, 1805-1872
Martineau, Harriet, 1802-1876
Weston, Lucia, 1822-1861
Places:
Massachusetts > Suffolk (county) > Boston
Extent:
1 leaf (6 p.) ; 8 x 4 3/8 in.
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/cv43pv180
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Place of origin:
Printing Office, 177, Great Brunswick street, Dublin, [Ireland]
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
Richard Davis Webb thanks Anne Warren Weston for the portrait of Azeglio. Webb hesitates to discuss the controversial American question. A large majority of travelled Americans do their best "to inculcate views favorable to slavery." Since the war is evidently for the maintenance of the Union and not for the abolition of slavery, it is expecting too much to look for English sympathy. "John Bull should regard the probable termination of the Union with some complacency," since instead of one powerful opponent, there will be two nations. Richard D. Webb defends himself against the charge of narrowness by telling that Mrs. Chapman wrote she wished Harriet Martineau "was the editor of the Standard and that I was the European correspondent." Richard Davis Webb holds Anne Warren Weston's "dear sweet sister," Lucia Weston, in loving memory.
Identifier:
3134248
Call #:
Ms.A.9.2 v.30, p.82
Barcode:
39999066779164
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