Letter from Anne Warren Weston to Margaret Fuller, [ca. 1840]

Item Information

Title:
Letter from Anne Warren Weston to Margaret Fuller, [ca. 1840]
Author:
Weston, Anne Warren, 1812-1890
Addressee:
Fuller, Margaret, 1810-1850
Date:
[ca. 1840]
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
Women's rights
Weston, Anne Warren, 1812-1890
Fuller, Margaret, 1810-1850
Places:
Massachusetts > Suffolk (county) > Boston
Extent:
2 leaves (8 p.) ; 4 7/8 x 3 7/8 in.
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/vm417d88g
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph.
Anne Warren Weston is answering Margaret Fuller's letter in place of Mrs. Maria W. Chapman, who is pressed with engagements "attendant on her sudden departure for Hayti(?)." Anne is sending the last annual report of the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society, written by Mrs. Chapman, "from which something of her sentiments on the position which women should occupy may be gathered." Correcting a misapprehension in Fuller's letter, Anne explains that the Anti-Slavery party "as such" has for its object only the emancipation of the slave. The one principle of the inviolability of personal freedom is the only one to which he [the abolitionist] stands committed."
The second leaf is apparently a rough draft of this letter. Anne writes: "I ended with some complimentary allusion to old times." On verso, is written: "My answer to Margaret."
Identifier:
2794382
Call #:
Ms.A.9.2 v.14, p.83
Barcode:
39999064320375
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