Letter from Edmund Quincy, Dedham, [Mass.], to Caroline Weston, Jan. 21, 1840

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Place of origin:
Dedham, [Mass.]
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
Edmund Quincy was not prepared for the thousand dollars (transmitted by John A. Collins). He emphasizes the obligation to help Collins, "to place him in his true position before the English Abolitionists." He sympathizes with Caroline Weston's indignation at Nathaniel Colver, but advises her not to worry about his punishment. Edmund Quincy comments about Colver: "Don't you know that he is damned already?" And elaborates on this idea. He describes a book called Child Album, by J. S. C. Abbott, which presents a "notion of Heaven" that seems to Edmund Quincy neither attractive nor convincing. Edmund Quincy misses the Chapmans. He tells of a meeting in Dedham to hear William Lloyd Garrison. He refers to "[Joel P.] Bishops and John Smiths absurdities" in connection with the next anti-slavery meeting. He objects to holding the meeting at Hines Chapel.
Identifier:
3133889
Call #:
Ms.A.9.2 v.15, p.16
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39999066779289
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