Letter from Ellis Gray Loring, Boston, [Mass.], to Caroline Weston, Feb. 22, 1846

Item Information

Title:
Letter from Ellis Gray Loring, Boston, [Mass.], to Caroline Weston, Feb. 22, 1846
Author:
Loring, Ellis Gray, 1803-1858
Addressee:
Weston, Caroline, 1808-1882
Date:
February 22, 1846
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
Fugitive slaves
Antislavery movements--United States
Women abolitionists--United States
Weston, Caroline, 1808-1882
Loring, Ellis Gray, 1803-1858
Places:
Massachusetts > Suffolk (county) > Boston
Extent:
1 leaf (2 p.) ; 10 x 8 in.
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/qz20vq38f
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Place of origin:
Boston, [Mass.]
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
Ellis Gray Loring thanks Caroline Weston for her "efficient exertions on Martin's account" and accepts "with the greatest satisfaction the opportunity of placing him with the Hortons." If the Hortons are not satisfied with him, "he must go a-whaling," but Ellis G. Loring is "glad to have a trial on shore." Ellis G. Loring sends a check for ten dollars for the boy's immediate needs.
In the postscript, Ellis G. Loring states that he wishes the boy, Martin, decently clad. Caroline is to pay someone to attend to this and Ellis G. Loring will pay all expenses.
For other letters by Ellis Gray Loring to Caroline Weston in which the boy named Martin, who is a former slave, is discussed, see Call No. Ms.A.9.2 v.22, p.17, letter dated Feb. 1, 1846, and Ms.A.9.2 v.22, p.9, letter dated Jan. 18, 1846.
Identifier:
3134232
Call #:
Ms.A.9.2 v.22, p.23
Barcode:
39999066778869
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