Letter from Richard Davis Webb, Dublin, [Ireland], to Maria Weston Chapman, Oct. 18, 1847

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Place of origin:
Dublin, [Ireland]
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
Richard Davis Webb asks a favor of Maria Weston Chapman, that she see a certain Mary Keogh, who is now residing in Boston and was formerly the domestic in the house of friends. He wants a visit paid to Mary Keogh and her health and spirits reported on; Mary Keogh is married to a drunken, good-for-nothing bootmaker. Richard Davis Webb reports on his purchases for the Boston fair. Public statements by Edmund Quincy amused Richard D. Webb, especially the notice of Frederick Douglass's new paper (The North Star). Webb comments: "Quincy is certainly a wag of the first order." While Richard D. Webb "can gossip away in the Standard well enough," he does not want to see his platitudes in the Liberty Bell. Webb has not asked the Howitts to contribute, and believes "they live by their wits & it's like asking them for money."
Identifier:
3134119
Call #:
Ms.A.4.6A v.1, p.117
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39999066745157
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