Letter from Deborah Weston, New Bedford, [Mass.], to Anne Warren Weston, Sunday morning, March 17th, 1839

Title:: Letter from Deborah Weston, New Bedford, [Mass.], to Anne Warren Weston, Sunday morning, March 17th, 1839
Author:: Weston, Deborah, b. 1814
Addressee:: Weston, Anne Warren, 1812-1890
Date:: March 17, 1839
Format:: Letters/Correspondence
Manuscripts
Location:: Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):: Anti-Slavery Collection
Subjects:: Abolitionists--Massachusetts--New Bedford
Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century
Women abolitionists--Massachusetts--Boston--19th century--Correspondence
Abolitionists--United States
Antislavery movements--United States
Women abolitionists--United States
Weston, Deborah, b. 1814
Weston, Anne Warren, 1812-1890
French, Rodney, approximately 1802-1882
St. Clair, Alanson
Places:: Massachusetts > Bristol (county) > New Bedford
Massachusetts > Suffolk (county) > Boston
Extent:: 1 leaf (4 p.) ; 9 3/4 x 7 7/8 in.
Permalink:: https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/wm117z35g
Terms of Use:: No known copyright restrictions.
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Place of origin:: New Bedford, [Mass.]
Language:: English
Notes:: Holograph, signed with initials.
Deborah Weston relates occurances at the lecture of Alanson St. Clair in Fairhaven, particularly the dispute between him and Rodney French, president of the New Bedford Anti-Slavery Society, who declared that the Massachusetts Abolitionist was established in opposition to the Liberator. Deborah gives news of New Bedford acquaintances.
Identifier:: 3132668
Call #:: Ms.A.9.2 v.11, p.62
Barcode:: 39999063104317
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