Letter from Deborah Weston, New Bedford, [Mass.], to Anne Warren Weston, Oct. 1845, Sunday evening

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Title:
Letter from Deborah Weston, New Bedford, [Mass.], to Anne Warren Weston, Oct. 1845, Sunday evening
Author:
Weston, Deborah, b. 1814
Addressee:
Weston, Anne Warren, 1812-1890
Date:
October 1845
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
Racism
Weston, Deborah, b. 1814
Weston, Anne Warren, 1812-1890
White, William Abijah, 1818-1856
Places:
Massachusetts > Suffolk (county) > Boston
Extent:
2 leaves (5 p.) ; 9 x 7 1/2 in.
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/vm418033k
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Place of origin:
New Bedford, [Mass.]
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph.
Deborah Weston writes this letter tonight instead of writing in her journal. She enumerates the people she's seen. Thomas Greene talked to her about "the Lyceum difficulty." She gives details of this affair, which involved the refusal to sell tickets to black people. She tells of a successful meeting and names the people who gave money. They worked hard for the fair all Sunday afternoon. Deborah is glad to hear of William A. White's engagement, as "it will take him out of E.G.L.'s [E. G. Loring] hand & put him into Mrs. Follen's more."
The second sheet bears the address: Miss Emma Forbes Weston, 53 Federal Street, Boston, Mass. And a brief note by Deborah Weston. She mentions a steamship and that things will come on Tuesday. They may have to "walk out in the face of N B & it will be well to have a good bonnet on."
Identifier:
3132733
Call #:
Ms.A.9.2 v.21, p.56
Barcode:
39999063104838
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