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Letter from Evelina A. S. Smith, Hingham, [Mass.], to Caroline Weston, May 23, 1841
1841-05-23
Smith, Evelina A. S, Weston, Caroline, 1808-1882
Holograph, signed.
- Title:
- Letter from Evelina A. S. Smith, Hingham, [Mass.], to Caroline Weston, May 23, 1841
- Creator:
- Smith, Evelina A. S, Weston, Caroline, 1808-1882
- Date Created:
- 1841-05-23
- Description:
Holograph, signed.
Evelina A. S. Smith explains that her delay in writing is due to a habit of doing what she wants to do, even though "it is not the right way of living, according to the Emersonian philosophy." Evelina A. S. Smith was grieved to hear of the death of Caroline Weston's niece, Gertrude Chapman. She wants to hear from Caroline Weston "the pros and cons for giving up slave produce in our families." She hopes to see Caroline Weston in Hingham on vacation and to meet her in Boston at the anti-slavery convention. The annual exhibition here "was tinctured with Abolition," and a slaveholder from the South was present. "The black Saxon," by Mrs. Lydia Maria Child and a piece written by William Lloyd Garrison were read and spoken by young scholars. "Mr. [Samuel Joseph] May looked delighted." She wants Caroline Weston's opinion of the Plain Speaker. Mr. Amos Bronson Alcott complained of William Lloyd Garrison's conservatism. Evelina A. S. Smith has heard that [Christopher Albert] Greene, the editor of the Plain Speaker, is to marry the sister of [William M.] Chace. The Whigs were disturbed by Mr. Oliver Stearns's abolition sermon on a day of fasting.
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- Partner:
- Digital Commonwealth
- Contributing Institution:
- Boston Public Library
- Subjects:
- Abolitionists--Massachusetts--Hingham
Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century
Women abolitionists--Massachusetts--Boston--19th century--Correspondence
Abolitionists--United States
Antislavery movements--United States
Women abolitionists--United States
Plain speaker
Weston, Caroline 1808-1882
Smith, Evelina A. S
Alcott, Amos Bronson 1799-1888
Chace, William M. 1814-1862
Chapman, Gertrude 1840-1841
Greene, Christopher A. (Christopher Albert) 1816-1853
Stearns, Oliver 1807-1885
Child, Lydia Maria 1802-1880 - Type:
- text
- Format:
- CorrespondenceManuscripts
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