Letter from Caroline Weston, Paris, [France], to Samuel May, July 3 / [18]50

Title:: Letter from Caroline Weston, Paris, [France], to Samuel May, July 3 / [18]50
Author:: Weston, Caroline, 1808-1882
Addressee:: May, Samuel, Jr., 1810-1899
Date:: [July 3, 1850]
Format:: Letters/Correspondence
Manuscripts
Location:: Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):: Anti-Slavery Collection
Subjects:: Abolitionists--Scotland--Glasgow
Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century
Women abolitionists--Massachusetts--Boston--19th century--Correspondence
Abolitionists
Antislavery movements--United States
Women abolitionists--United States
Weston, Caroline, 1808-1882
May, Samuel, Jr., 1810-1899
Estlin, Mary Anne, 1820-1902
Parkes, Mrs.
Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885
Estlin, J. B. (John Bishop), 1785-1855
Places:: Massachusetts > Suffolk (county) > Boston
Scotland > Glasgow (county) > Glasgow
Extent:: 2 leaves (8 p.) ; 5 1/2 x 8 in.
Permalink:: https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/vm417q94g
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Place of origin:: Paris, [France]
Language:: English
Notes:: Holograph, signed.
Caroline Weston met Dr. Estlin and his daughter. She mentions a group of Scottish women who were trying to make trouble for the English and Irish abolitionists. Mrs. Chapman obtained several articles for publication in the Liberty Bell from distinguished persons. Caroline and her traveling party are going to Switzerland. She met Mrs. Parkes (the translator of Frederick Douglass' Narrative into French) and her daughter in Paris.
There are two layers of writing, lengthwise and crosswise, on the last four pages of this letter.
Notes (date):: This date is inferred.
Identifier:: 3132580
Call #:: Ms.B.1.6 v.4, p.5
Barcode:: 39999063101248
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