Letter from Caroline Weston, Boston, [Mass.], to Deborah Weston, Thursday evening, [Dec. 26, 1839?]

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Title:
Letter from Caroline Weston, Boston, [Mass.], to Deborah Weston, Thursday evening, [Dec. 26, 1839?]
Author:
Weston, Caroline, 1808-1882
Addressee:
Weston, Deborah, b. 1814
Date:
[December 26, 1839?]
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Manuscripts
Location:
Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):
Anti-Slavery Collection
Subjects:
Anti-slavery fairs
Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century
Women abolitionists--Massachusetts--Boston--19th century--Correspondence
Antislavery movements--United States
Women abolitionists--United States
Smallpox
Weston, Caroline, 1808-1882
Weston, Deborah, b. 1814
Ball, Martha V., 1811-1890
Places:
Massachusetts > Suffolk (county) > Boston
Extent:
1 leaf (4 p.) ; 9 7/8 x 7 5/8 in.
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/vm417p58d
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Place of origin:
Boston, [Mass.]
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
Caroline Weston says that Anne Warren Weston went to Hamilton with R.[ichard] Hildreth. "The fair has been holding & we had a Christmas party at Chauncy place." Martha V. Ball has smallpox. Caroline will send a parcel for the New Bedford fair, and she enumerates the towns provided with articles for their fairs. Caroline has received a letter from Lucia Weston reporting "great alarm about the small pox." Caroline hopes they will all be vaccinated.
Identifier:
3132544
Call #:
Ms.A.9.2 v.16, p.17
Barcode:
39999063102782
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