Letter from Abby Osgood, New Bedford, [Mass.], to Deborah Weston, April 19th [1838]

Item Information

Title:
Letter from Abby Osgood, New Bedford, [Mass.], to Deborah Weston, April 19th [1838]
Author:
Osgood, Abby, 1814-1862
Addressee:
Weston, Deborah, b. 1814
Date:
[April 19, 1838]
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
Osgood, Abby, 1814-1862
Emerson, John F.
Places:
Massachusetts > Suffolk (county) > Boston
Extent:
1 leaf (4 p.) ; 7 7/8 x 5 in.
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/wm118373w
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Place of origin:
New Bedford, [Mass.]
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
This letter is presumably by Abby Osgood. Abby tells Deborah Weston of the activities of various mutual acquaintances in New Bedford, where Mr. & Mrs. Peabody "are now the lions of the town." Abby writes that "Mr. Emerson's school-house is being rapidly transformed into a dwelling house, ..." Ellen Horton is going away to Leicester to a Quaker boarding school.
There is an envelope with Call No. Ms.A.9.2 v.5, p.50. Sent by an unknown person. It is addressed to: Miss D. Weston, Weymouth, Mass. It is postmarked New York, Oct. 11.
Notes (date):
This date is inferred.
Identifier:
3132768
Call #:
Ms.A.9.2 v.5, p.50
Barcode:
39999063098311
mq8390132