Letter from Deborah Weston, [Boston, Mass.], to Maria Weston Chapman, Saturday, 10 March 1860

Title:: Letter from Deborah Weston, [Boston, Mass.], to Maria Weston Chapman, Saturday, 10 March 1860
Author:: Weston, Deborah, b. 1814
Addressee:: Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885
Date:: March 10, 1860
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
Chapman, Mary Gray, 1798-1874
Dicey, Anne Greene Chapman, d. 1879
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864
Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885
Places:: Massachusetts > Suffolk (county) > Boston
Extent:: 1 leaf (4 p.) ; 7 3/8 x 5 in.
Permalink:: https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/vm418130z
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Place of origin:: [Boston, Mass.]
Language:: English
Notes:: Holograph, signed with initials.
This letter is concerned with domestic matters. Deborah Weston says about Mary [Gray Chapman]'s condition: "I call her very poorly." She describes Anne [Chapman]'s gowns and appearance. Anne Chapman "longs to get home to Weymouth, ...She has bought Hawthorne's new book to delect herself with tomorrow." [The book mentioned is Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Marble Faun," published in 1860.]
Identifier:: 3132743
Call #:: Ms.A.9.2 v.30, p.45
Barcode:: 39999063098014
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