Letter from Anne Warren Weston, New Bedford, [Mass.], to Ann Bates Weston, May 30, 1836, Monday afternoon

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Title:
Letter from Anne Warren Weston, New Bedford, [Mass.], to Ann Bates Weston, May 30, 1836, Monday afternoon
Author:
Weston, Anne Warren, 1812-1890
Addressee:
Weston, Ann Bates, 1785-1878
Date:
May 30, 1836
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, Ann Bates, 1785-1878
Taber, Isaac
Taber, Charlotte
Emerson, John T.
Places:
Massachusetts > Suffolk (county) > Boston
Extent:
2 leaves (6 p.) ; 9 3/4 x 7 7/8 in.
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/vm417g08z
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Place of origin:
New Bedford, [Mass.]
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
Anne Warren Weston describes her journey by stage to New Bedford, including a conversation about abolition with Rev. Mr. Holmes and an old Quaker. She relates details of her arrival and first night in New Bedford. She gives her impression of Mr. Emerson as "remarkably soft & kind in his manner," tells of his saying "he was happy I was so animated in conversation, that his last Preceptress in school & out ... had not talked so much as I had done in the course of an evening." She describes her lodging and her Quaker hosts, Isaac and Charlotte Taber--"they are both purer than pure"--and tells of the remedies applied by Mrs. Taber in caring for the writer's bad cold. Though feeling the writer started school teaching Monday morning, has scholars, "all nice pretty looking girls, the average age about 14."
There is also a receipt dated 30 May 1836, to the New England Anti-Slavery Society for $45 in payment, "To use of Meeting House, corner of Salem & Bennet Street, 3 days, for Anti Slavery Convention." The receipt is signed by Orin[?] Moore, for the Salem Street Congregational Society.
Identifier:
3132212
Call #:
MS A.9.2 v.8, no.28
Barcode:
39999063210205
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