Letter from Anne Warren Weston, Boston, to Deborah Weston, March 8, 1839

Title:: Letter from Anne Warren Weston, Boston, to Deborah Weston, March 8, 1839
Author:: Weston, Anne Warren, 1812-1890
Addressee:: Weston, Deborah, b. 1814
Date:: March 8, 1839
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
Antislavery movements--United States
Women abolitionists--United States
Weston, Anne Warren, 1812-1890
Weston, Deborah, b. 1814
Phelps, Amos A. (Amos Augustus), 1805-1847
Boston Female Anti-slavery Society
Clay, Henry, 1777-1852
Collins, John A. (John Anderson), 1810-1879
Places:: Massachusetts > Suffolk (county) > Boston
Extent:: 1 leaf (4 p.) ; 9 3/4 x 7 7/8 in.
Permalink:: https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/wm117z09v
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Place of origin:: Boston
Language:: English
Notes:: Holograph, signed.
Anne Warren Weston describes an argument over a proposal to call a meeting of the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society. Mrs. Maria W. Chapman wanted to send a letter to Henry Clay for the purpose of considering a meeting. Mentions seeing Amos A. Phelps at church, "looking miserably." Tells of calls made and received, a fancy dress ball to be given by Mrs. Richard Derby, John James Dixwell's costume, and John A. Collins, a newly appointed as an agent of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society.
Identifier:: 3132271
Call #:: Ms.A.9.2 v.11, p.53
Barcode:: 39999063210916
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