Letter from Anne Warren Weston, Boston [and] Cambridge, to Deborah Weston, March 30, 1839 [and] Thursday, April 4, [1839]

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Title:
Letter from Anne Warren Weston, Boston [and] Cambridge, to Deborah Weston, March 30, 1839 [and] Thursday, April 4, [1839]
Author:
Weston, Anne Warren, 1812-1890
Addressee:
Weston, Deborah, b. 1814
Date:
[March 30, 1839–April 4, 1839]
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, Anne Warren, 1812-1890
Weston, Deborah, b. 1814
St. Clair, Alanson
Mack, Maria
Ammidon, Sylvia Ann
Phelps, Amos A. (Amos Augustus), 1805-1847
Places:
Massachusetts > Suffolk (county) > Boston
Extent:
1 leaf (4 p.) ; 10 x 7 7/8 in.
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/wm118561h
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Place of origin:
Boston [and] Cambridge
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
Anne Warren Weston describes an occasion at which Alanson St. Clair was "cross mortified bitter & I think false." Describes a family visit to Mrs. Sylvia Owen. W.R. Chapman will probably be an agent (of the Mass. Anti-Slavery Society?). Urged by Mary Robbins, Anne Warren Weston "foolishly went to Mr. [John Seely] Stone's church (St. Paul's) on Good Friday; comments on the sermon. Anne repeats a report in the London Chronicle of the marriage of Elizabeth Ann Sturgis Bates to Silvain De Vandermeyer. Tells of a sermon by Mr. Amos A. Phelps, who had "some awful hits at the Non Resistants." Recounts various calls received and conversations. The April 4 entry is written from Cambridge, where Anne was apparently visiting Mrs. Sylvia Owen. Attended Dr. Charles Theodore C. Follen's lecture on pantheism, in which "he managed to give a cut at Slavery." Anne's heart "beats like a hammer with joy at the thought of getting back to Boston." Gives news about Mrs. Maria Mack. Mentions the receipt of a "most vile" letter from Louisville (see Ms.A.9.2 v.11, p.67[?]). Anne thinks "a pretty little Fair in N. [New] Bedford would meet with success...the millionaires would come."
Notes (date):
This date is inferred.
Identifier:
3132274
Call #:
Ms.A.9.2 v.11, p.71
Barcode:
39999063210940
mq8390887