Letter from Caroline Weston, Boston, to Deborah Weston, Monday eve'g, March 18, [18]'39

Item Information

Title:
Letter from Caroline Weston, Boston, to Deborah Weston, Monday eve'g, March 18, [18]'39
Author:
Weston, Caroline, 1808-1882
Addressee:
Weston, Deborah, b. 1814
Date:
[March 18, 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, Caroline, 1808-1882
Weston, Deborah, b. 1814
Collins, John A. (John Anderson), 1810-1879
Places:
Massachusetts > Suffolk (county) > Boston
Extent:
1 leaf (4 p.) ; 10 1/8 x 7 5/8 in.
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/wm117z303
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Place of origin:
Boston
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
Caroline Weston wants to know "the ultimatum about the New Bedford business." She expresses happiness "with dear dear brother [John A.] Collins at the helm." She admits: "I think indeed that I like C.[ollins] better than I did P.[hillips]." She describes at length the quarterly meeting of the Essex County Society at Wenham, at which the opposing factions met in a "desperate game." Caroline is no longer troubled with debt. "Haven't I done well to pay off in a year, & lose as much as I did too--?--"
Notes (date):
This date is inferred.
Identifier:
3132539
Call #:
Ms.A.9.2 v.11, p.61
Barcode:
39999063102691
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