Letter from Anne Warren Weston, Chauncy Pl., [Boston], Deborah Weston, Jan. 8, 1842

Item Information

Title:
Letter from Anne Warren Weston, Chauncy Pl., [Boston], Deborah Weston, Jan. 8, 1842
Author:
Weston, Anne Warren, 1812-1890
Addressee:
Weston, Deborah, b. 1814
Date:
January 8, 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
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882
Places:
Massachusetts > Suffolk (county) > Boston
Extent:
2 leaves (5 p.)
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/vm417b86h
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Place of origin:
Chauncy Pl., [Boston]
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
Anne W. Weston attended Ralph Waldo Emerson's lecture. "It was on character & was quite interesting. The house was full two thirds. He attacked the Abolitionists by name in a very vile manner that is supposing he meant us, for all he said applied perfectly to Torrey Colver etc. The idea was that the Abolitionists were spiritual slaveholders 'incarnations of the laws of Georgia and Alabama.' He however bore something of a testimony as to Slavery for he spoke of it in company with 'fraud' & other acknowledged vices." Caroline Weston has a letter from Richard Hildreth.
Included is a typed transcript of paragraph 4, from Emerson's Essay on Character, that is mentioned Anne Warren Weston's letter.
Identifier:
3132331
Call #:
Ms.A.9.2 v.17, p.67
Barcode:
39999064320581
mq8390702