Letter from Wendell Phillips to Anne Warren Weston, [26 Aug. 1851?]

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Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
Wendell Phillips proposes that, in writing to Ralph Waldo Emerson for a contribution to the Liberty Bell, Anne Warren Weston might suggest his giving her an extract from his anti-slavery speech---"say his analysis of Webster, which was very acute & finely wrought, or his indignant denunciation of the 'no hidden law' heresy." Wendell Phillips mentions this because the "reluctance to write something new, or difficulty of inventing a subject are the very frequent causes of the 'no' you receive." In the postscript, Wendell Phillips suggests numerous names [of possible contributors?], among them "a poetess, Miss Townsend I think, ...she wrote 'Milton on his Blindness' which some papers mistook for a newly discovered poem of J. Milton's."
Includes an envelope with the delivery address: Miss A. W. Weston, Weymouth, Mass. It is postmarked Lynn, Mass., Aug. 26.
Identifier:
3133992
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Ms.A.9.2 v.25, p.113
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