Letter from Richard Webb, 8 Grosvenor road West, Rathgar, Dublin, [Ireland], to Anne Warren Weston, Aug. 17th, 1872

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Title:
Letter from Richard Webb, 8 Grosvenor road West, Rathgar, Dublin, [Ireland], to Anne Warren Weston, Aug. 17th, 1872
Author:
Webb, Richard, 1835-1882
Addressee:
Weston, Anne Warren, 1812-1890
Date:
August 17, 1872
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, 1835-1882
Webb, Richard Davis, 1805-1872
Places:
Massachusetts > Suffolk (county) > Boston
Extent:
1 leaf (4 p.) ; 8 x 5 1/8 in.
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/cv43pw77c
Terms of Use:
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Place of origin:
8 Grosvenor road West, Rathgar, Dublin, [Ireland]
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
Richard Webb presumably wrote this letter to Anne Warren Weston. Richard Webb reports the death of his father, Richard Davis Webb. Richard Webb and his brother would have sent Anne W. Weston memorial cards had they known her address. He gives an account of his father's state of health and increasing weakness from the time Richard Webb returned from California four months ago. Toward the end his father "became anxious to go." He took leave of his family on the evening of July 13th, then passed into unconsciousness and died at two o'clock the next morning. Richard Davis Webb was in his 68th year. The injury that Richard Davis Webb received on Lake Superior four years before is believed by the doctors to have hastened his death.
Identifier:
2813433
Call #:
Ms.A.9.2 v.32, p.83
Barcode:
39999066779016
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