Letter from Richard Davis Webb, Dublin, [Ireland], to Maria Weston Chapman, 16th [day] of May, 1846

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Title:
Letter from Richard Davis Webb, Dublin, [Ireland], to Maria Weston Chapman, 16th [day] of May, 1846
Author:
Webb, Richard Davis, 1805-1872
Addressee:
Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885
Date:
May 16, 1846
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
Webb, Richard Davis, 1805-1872
Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895
Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885
Estlin, J. B. (John Bishop), 1785-1855
Places:
Massachusetts > Suffolk (county) > Boston
Extent:
3 leaves (8 p.) ; 9 5/8 x 7 5/8 in. and various sizes.
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/qz20vq71g
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Place of origin:
Dublin, [Ireland]
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
Richard Davis Webb criticizes Frederick Douglass and considers "his selfishness intense, his affections weak, and his unreasonableness quite extravagant when he is in the slightest degree hurt or when he thinks himself hurt." Richard D. Webb admits that it may have been injudicious of him to read in Douglass's presence from a letter by Maria Weston Chapman, which referred to him. He mentions Douglass's rudeness to Richard D. Webb's cousin Lizzy Post and his ungrateful behavior to James N. Buffum. As the printer of Douglass's book, Richard D. Webb recounts his relations with him. George Thompson started the idea of a meeting of friends of the cause; William Lloyd Garrison has been invited. Webb praises John Bishop Estlin.
The second and third leaves of this manuscript have been cut and trimmed by an unknown person.
Identifier:
3134097
Call #:
Ms.A.9.2 v.22, p.51
Barcode:
39999066744903
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