Letter from Anne Warren Weston, Poplar Street, [Boston], to Deborah Weston, Feb. 11, 1842. Friday evening

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Title:
Letter from Anne Warren Weston, Poplar Street, [Boston], to Deborah Weston, Feb. 11, 1842. Friday evening
Author:
Weston, Anne Warren, 1812-1890
Addressee:
Weston, Deborah, b. 1814
Date:
February 11, 1842
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
Weston, Anne Warren, 1812-1890
Weston, Deborah, b. 1814
Ammidon, Sylvia Ann
Chapman, Henry Grafton, 1804-1842
Gore, John C.
Places:
Massachusetts > Suffolk (county) > Boston
Extent:
1 leaf (4 p.) ; 10 x 7 7/8 in.
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/vm417b37k
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Place of origin:
Poplar Street, [Boston]
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed with initials.
Anne W. Weston, along with Lucia Weston, went up to their knees in mud to the Worcester Rail Road to see Charles Dickens off, but as he was not to go till two hours later, "poor Lucia abandoned all hope of seeing him." Anne has written one of her articles for the Non-Resistant on the subject of capital punishment. Henry G. Chapman's cough troubled him so much that he and Maria W. Chapman are preparing to sail for Gonives [sic; perhaps she is referring to Gonaives, Haiti.] and from there to Port-au-Prince. Anne attended the wedding of Sylvia Ammidon and describes the affair. In a conversation, Anne learned that the minister who she heard preach was not Jacob Knapp, but was another minister. Wendell Phillips, Charles L. Remond, and Ellis Gray Loring appeared before the House "about the Rail Road. The Hall was full & all did exceedingly well." John C. Gore has given half a township in land to the Massachusetts (Anti-Slavery) Society.
See Call No. Ms.A.9.2 v.17, p.24 for the letter in which Anne W. Weston describes hearing the minister who she mistakenly believed was Jacob Knapp.
Identifier:
3132337
Call #:
Ms.A.9.2 v.17, p.33
Barcode:
39999064320649
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