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Letter to Anne Warren Weston
1832-1867
Weston, Anne Warren, 1812-1890
Holograph, signed.
- Title:
- Letter to Anne Warren Weston
- Creator:
- Weston, Anne Warren, 1812-1890
- Date Created:
- 1832-1867
- Description:
Holograph, signed.
Title devised by cataloger.
Unknown writes to Anne Warren Weston in regards to their illness. The author writes about Miss Massie and how she promised the author for the next Bazaar "some fine pictures." The author has the five dollars that was meant to be sent to Anne. The author hopes to do things for the Bazaar and has asked about the Crafts The author writes of her visit five days prior to Joanna Bailie, a Scottish poet and dramatist. The author writes of Ms. Montgomery's friends. A second incomplete letter which starts on page 3 where the author writes about an anti-slavery festival in which they see many abolitionists. They see Ellis Gray Loring at Sheffield and he made a speech about England and America being the "great backwasher of freedom contrasting them with the European states." Mr. Armstrong wrote a lettter to the Examiner in which the report appeared, commenting on their "forgetfulness." Mr. Chapman has written an article for the second number. The author writes that they are "cheating the Philadelphia Train out of a moving work by writing to you." The author goes on to say, that they are "only an A[nti]. S[lavery]. carpet sweeper picking up odds and ends that happen to be thrown down, and tying them together.."
Item details
- Partner:
- Digital Commonwealth
- Contributing Institution:
- Boston Public Library
- Subjects:
- Women abolitionists--United States--19th century--Correspondence
Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century
Women social reformers--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--Anti-slavery fairs--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--Societies, etc--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--Publishing--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--Congresses--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--Meetings--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--Newspapers--United States--History--19th century
Women abolitionists--United States
Antislavery movements--United States
Women social reformers--United States
Societies
Publishers and publishing
Congresses and conventions
Meetings
Weston, Anne Warren 1812-1890
Craft, William
Loring, Ellis Gray 1803-1858
Chapman, Henry Grafton 1804-1842
Baillie, Joanna 1762-1851 - Type:
- text
- Format:
- CorrespondenceManuscripts
- Rights:
- No known restrictions on use.
No known copyright restrictions.