Letter from Mary Weston to Deborah Weston, Friday 26 July [1839?]

Title:: Letter from Mary Weston to Deborah Weston, Friday 26 July [1839?]
Author:: Weston, Mary, 1786-1860
Addressee:: Weston, Deborah, b. 1814
Date:: [July 26, 1839?]
Format:: Letters/Correspondence
Manuscripts
Location:: Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):: Anti-Slavery Collection
Subjects:: Anti-slavery fairs
Slavery--United States--Social conditions
Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century
Women abolitionists--Massachusetts--Boston--19th century--Correspondence
Slavery--United States
Social history
Antislavery movements--United States
Women abolitionists--United States
Weston, Deborah, b. 1814
Weston, Mary, 1786-1860
Bramhall, Cornelius
Right and wrong in Boston
Places:: Massachusetts > Suffolk (county) > Boston
Extent:: 1 leaf (4 p.) ; 10 x 7 3/4 in.
Permalink:: https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/cv43qf05m
Terms of Use:: No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.

Language:: English
Notes:: Holograph, signed.
Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius Bramhall went to Virginia; while staying at a plantation, they heard of the whipping of a female slave. Mary Weston has a bad cough. Mary Weston gives some family news. She describes Dr. Rutter, a minister from Dorchester. She discusses selling Mrs. Maria Weston Chapman's "Right and Wrong," preparing boxes for an anti-slavery fair, and collecting signatures for a petition. Mary Weston also tells about the different visits she has made.
Identifier:: 3134366
Call #:: Ms.A.9.2 v.4, p.92
Barcode:: 39999066746643
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