Incomplete letter from Caroline Weston, Boston, [Mass.], to Maria Weston Chapman and Henry Grafton Chapman, April 5, 1841

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Title:
Incomplete letter from Caroline Weston, Boston, [Mass.], to Maria Weston Chapman and Henry Grafton Chapman, April 5, 1841
Author:
Weston, Caroline, 1808-1882
Addressee:
Chapman, Henry Grafton, 1804-1842
Addressee:
Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885
Date:
April 5, 1841
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, Caroline, 1808-1882
Chapman, Henry Grafton, 1804-1842
Hunt
Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885
Places:
Massachusetts > Suffolk (county) > Boston
Extent:
1 leaf (6 p.) ; 10 x 7 7/8 in.
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/wm118919b
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Place of origin:
Boston, [Mass.]
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph.
Caroline Weston complains of colds and bad weather. She entreats Maria and Henry Chapman to be careful. She reports on the progress of the Maria and Henry's children, from baby Gertrude at Chauncy Place to Lizzy [Elizabeth B. Chapman] at school. Little Ann is the most gifted, "a child of sound judgment--tact--& originality." Garrison is to lecture in Weymouth. Caroline's sisters Anne, Lucia, and Emma attended the Ministry Convention in Boston. Amos A. Phelps, Charles C. Torrey, Nathanial Colver, Alanson St. Clair, and Luther Lee used up three fourths of the time "in trying by all ways unfair & malicious to fasten the imputation of infidelity upon the convention." She gives examples of vulgar and insulting remarks. Henry C. Wright, Dr. [Sylvanus?] Brown, and Amos Bronson Alcott opposed them, and William Bassett "almost killed them" by proving that the Quakers in England recognized other authorities than the Bible. Caroline writes that "Grandma Hunt" died.
The end of the letter is missing.
Identifier:
2797179
Call #:
Ms.A.9.2 v.15, p.36
Barcode:
39999063102923
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