Letter from Deborah Weston, [Boston?, Mass.], to Anne Warren Weston, Friday, June 10 [through Friday, June 17], 1836

Item Information

Title:
Letter from Deborah Weston, [Boston?, Mass.], to Anne Warren Weston, Friday, June 10 [through Friday, June 17], 1836
Author:
Weston, Deborah, b. 1814
Addressee:
Weston, Anne Warren, 1812-1890
Date:
[June 10, 1836–June 17, 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, Deborah, b. 1814
Weston, Anne Warren, 1812-1890
Morrison, Mrs.
Pierpont, John, 1785-1866
Weld, Theodore Dwight, 1803-1895
Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885
Boston Courier
Places:
Massachusetts > Suffolk (county) > Boston
Extent:
1 leaf (4 p.) ; 9 7/8 x 8 in.
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/vm417x747
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Place of origin:
[Boston?, Mass.]
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
Deborah Weston sends Anne Warren Weston a copy of the [Boston] Courier containing an account of "our meeting" [of the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society]. Many in Mr. [John] Pierpon't congregation "almost went out" when the notice of the meeting was read. Mrs. Maria Weston Chapman went to Mrs. [Abby May?] Alcott's "to meet Mrs. Morrison & the animal magnetism man & Miss [Elizabeth Palmer] Peabody...Maria had a little searching talk with Miss Peabody." Deborah Weston heard Bishop Griswold preach a "tolerable good sermon" at St. Paul's. Maria enlightened Mrs. Morrison in regared to the right kind of abolitionism. Deborah writes: "Today the [abolition?] hymn book came out." A letter from Henry Egbert Benson is said to state that a "tremendous mob" was going on in Troy, where [Theodore Dwight] Weld was lecturing. Deborah Weston met Garrison and John Greenleaf Whittier at the Athenaeum. On June 16, Deborah Weston attended a family party at Chauncey Place, and "language fails to describe its stupidity," the worst being that she could not eat any ice cream, not having "eaten any slave labour since you went." Beet root sugar is just as good as white sugar and good as loaf sugar. Deborah wishes that Anne's cold would end. Emma [Weston] is "rather poorly." Hervey [Weston] has been matriculated.
Notes (date):
This date is inferred.
Identifier:
3132639
Call #:
Ms.A.9.2 v.8, p.31
Barcode:
39999063104010
mq8390360