Rebecca Buffum Spring autograph letter signed to [Thomas Wentworth Higginson], Eagleswood [Perth Amboy, N.J.], 19 January [1860]

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Title:
Rebecca Buffum Spring autograph letter signed to [Thomas Wentworth Higginson], Eagleswood [Perth Amboy, N.J.], 19 January [1860]
Description:
Believes Mrs. [Mary Anne (Day)] Brown wishes the girls to go to [Theodore Dwight] Weld's school. Quotes from [Aaron Dwight] Stevens's letter. He is well but heavily chained.
Author:
Spring, Rebecca Buffum
Addressee:
Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 1823-1911
Name on Item:
R. B. Spring
Date:
[January 19, 1860]
Format:
Manuscripts
Letters/Correspondence
Location:
Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
MS E.5.1, pt. 2, p. 117 - 170 (shelf locator)
Collection (local):
John Brown: Correspondence relating to John Brown and the raid on Harpers Ferry, West Virginia
Subjects:
Abolitionists--United States
Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century
Harpers Ferry (W. Va.)--History--John Brown's Raid, 1859
Brown, Mary Ann Day, 1816-1884
Weld, Theodore Dwight, 1803-1895
Places:
New Jersey > Middlesex (county) > Perth Amboy
Extent:
1 sheet (4 p.)
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/dz011c07v
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Language:
English
Notes:
Title supplied by cataloger.
Notes (acquisition):
Donated to the Boston Public Library by Thomas Wentworth Higginson in 1904.
Notes (date):
Date from item or from supporting materials.
This date is inferred.
Call #:
MS E.5.1, pt. 2, p. 164
Barcode:
39999085841326