Letter from Caroline Weston, Boston, [Mass.], to Deborah Weston, Friday afternoon, [ca. 26 Oct. 1842]

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Title:
Letter from Caroline Weston, Boston, [Mass.], to Deborah Weston, Friday afternoon, [ca. 26 Oct. 1842]
Author:
Weston, Caroline, 1808-1882
Addressee:
Weston, Deborah, b. 1814
Date:
[ca. October 26, 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, Caroline, 1808-1882
Weston, Deborah, b. 1814
Moorfield, Elizabeth
Places:
Massachusetts > Suffolk (county) > Boston
Extent:
1 leaf (2 p.) ; 9 7/8 x 7 7/8 in.
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/vm417p816
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Place of origin:
Boston, [Mass.]
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
Caroline Weston wants to stay in town over Sunday. Otherwise, she would return home on account of "Ma's ill turns." Caroline writes that "Garrison & Jackson are such fools that they have got Stanton & Leavitt with others to speak at the Faneuil Hall meeting which comes off Sunday night--no need of words." Caroline Weston called on Elizabeth Moorfield and her husband, "who is I think nephew to Judge Story" [no]. Finding that Caroline intended to go to "the trial," he offered to secure her a good place inside the bar.
"The trial" referred to in this letter, is presumably the trial of George Latimer, fugitive slave, which was to take place before Judge Story.
Identifier:
3132568
Call #:
Ms.A.9.2 v.17, p.101
Barcode:
39999063101073
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