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Letter from Abby Osgood, New Bedford, [Mass.], to Deborah Weston, April 19th [1838]
1838-04-19
Osgood, Abby, 1814-1862, Weston, Deborah, b. 1814
Holograph, signed.
- Title:
- Letter from Abby Osgood, New Bedford, [Mass.], to Deborah Weston, April 19th [1838]
- Creator:
- Osgood, Abby, 1814-1862, Weston, Deborah, b. 1814
- Date Created:
- 1838-04-19
- Description:
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.
This date is inferred.
Item details
- Partner:
- Digital Commonwealth
- Contributing Institution:
- Boston Public Library
- 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 - Type:
- text
- Format:
- CorrespondenceManuscripts
- Rights:
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