Letter from Sarah C. Rugg, Groton, [Massachusetts], to Anne Warren Weston, [1838] Feb[ruary] 18

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Title:
Letter from Sarah C. Rugg, Groton, [Massachusetts], to Anne Warren Weston, [1838] Feb[ruary] 18
Description:
Sarah C. Rugg writes to Anne Warren Weston in regards to receiving the petition from Dr. Amos Farnsworth. The whole care of circulating the petitions rest in her hands. She wants to see the Grimke sisters. Angelina is to address a committee from the legislature. She believes the Grimkes are doing a great work for the country by emancipating women. She writes, "I believe for this purpose the Lord hath rais'd them up, for this purpose he sustains them, not only to plead for the slave, but to rest on the waste places, the inroads that have been made upon the female character, in justice to them I shall call them repairers of the breach, restorers of paths to dwell in." They will be invited again to speak next spring beside "Mr. Phelps' pulpit." She writes of a revival of religion in Groton. Her anti-slavery society met and spent most of the time in prayer.
Author:
Rugg, Sarah C.
Addressee:
Weston, Anne Warren, 1812-1890
Date:
[February 18, 1838]
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Manuscripts
Location:
Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):
Anti-Slavery Collection
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--Religious aspects--Christianity--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--Lectures and lecturing--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--Publishing--United States--History--19th century
Women abolitionists--United States
Antislavery movements--United States
Women social reformers--United States
Societies
Christianity
Women's rights--United States--History--19th century
Lectures and lecturing
Publishers and publishing
Weston, Anne Warren, 1812-1890
Rugg, Sarah C.
Phelps, Amos A. (Amos Augustus), 1805-1847
Grimké, Angelina Emily, 1805-1879
Grimké, Sarah, 1792-1873
Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885
Extent:
1 leaf (4 p.) ; 26 cm.
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https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/2z110524v
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Place of origin:
Groton, [Massachusetts]
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
Title devised by cataloger.
Notes (date):
This date is inferred.
Identifier:
5853143
Call #:
MS A.9.2, v.10, p.24
Barcode:
39999085839593