Letter from Richard Davis Webb, Dublin, [Ireland], to Caroline Weston, October 15, 1848

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Place of origin:
Dublin, [Ireland]
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
Richard Davis Webb presumably wrote this letter to Caroline Weston. A few years ago Richard D. Webb thought himself lucky merely to have possessed Caroline Weston's autograph. Webb discourses on his hero worship of her. Webb has sent copies, with some omissions, of Caroline Weston's remarks on "the Douglass matter" to Cork, Edinburgh, Manchester, and Wrenham. He has reason to hope that donations from Cork will not be less than last year. Of all the Irish contributors, Maria Waring (Richard D. Webb's sister-in-law) is the most liberal. Webb explains his long hesitation to contribute to the Liberty Bell. Webb has now put together some facts and "anecdotes about the Anti Slavery people of Liverpool." ["Liverpool Fifty Years Ago," by Richard Davis Webb, was printed in the Liberty Bell for 1849, p. 117?-146.] He alludes to a lack of success in approaching one writer, Harriet Martineau, "towards whom I have ever had feelings almost of reverent admiration." Webb will send a large number of seaweed boxes and baskets. Webb told Eliza Wigham of Edinburgh that she could rely on seeing Caroline Weston before she crossed the Atlantic again. Webb comments on George Combe's lack of interest in the cause. Webb tried to read the Forest Sanctuary, by Mrs. Hemans, but could not go on. He exclaims on the joy Caroline Weston must experience in Paris, Milan, Florence, and Rome.
In the postscript on the bottom of page four, Richard Davis Webb offers three pounds collected in Dublin for purchases in Paris for the fair.
Identifier:
3134079
Call #:
Ms.A.9.2 v.24, p.39
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