Letter from Hervey Eliphaz Weston, New Haven, [CT], to Anne Warren Weston, Dec. 10, 1835

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Title:
Letter from Hervey Eliphaz Weston, New Haven, [CT], to Anne Warren Weston, Dec. 10, 1835
Author:
Weston, Hervey Eliphaz, 1817-1882
Addressee:
Weston, Anne Warren, 1812-1890
Date:
December 10, 1835
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Manuscripts
Location:
Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):
Anti-Slavery Collection
Subjects:
Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century
Women abolitionists--Massachusetts--Boston--19th century--Correspondence
Riots
Antislavery movements--United States
Women abolitionists--United States
Weston, Anne Warren, 1812-1890
Weston, Hervey Eliphaz, 1817-1882
Yale College (1718-1887)
Places:
Massachusetts > Suffolk (county) > Boston
Extent:
1 leaf (4 p.) ; 10 x 7 5/8 in.
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/qz20vk74g
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Place of origin:
New Haven, [CT]
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
Hervey Eliphaz Weston was quite sick on Thanksgiving day. He has been to West Rock and Judges' Cave. He describes the cave in which (William) Goffey and (Edward) Whalley lived for a number of years. He refers to a book about them by the "old president [Ezra] Stiles." Hervey E. Weston says that "poor Fletcher is sick yet," and has inquired "how soon is your sister coming." There was a commotion in the college yard by five or six fellows, who were "acting more like mad than anything else," the cause being two southerners "with their hands full of Abolition tracts and newspapers and a number of others of the same stamp cursing and swearing" and threatening to tar and feather Pierce, "the fellow who distributed them." A meeting called by "the Bully Bennet" came to nothing. The southerners were obliged to withdraw their resolutions. They tried to hiss at a fellow who spoke an abolition piece in the chapel, but could not. Hervey E. Weston is geting on well in his lessons.
Identifier:
3134283
Call #:
MS A.9.2 v.7, p.47
Barcode:
39999066745645
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