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Letter from Deborah Weston, Boylston Street, Boston, to Ann Bates Weston, May 8th, 1835

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Holograph, signed.Deborah Weston was very glad to get her silk gown. All are well, except Emma [Weston]. Deborah had a "very uncomfortable day" expecting Benjamin Silliman to lecture and not being able to find out about it until Maria Weston Chapman came to say that the lecture was put off and "it was voted that no ladies should be admitted. Mr. Fletcher thinks it a most shameful thing... Maria is very busy about Mrs. Child," who cannot go on with the book she is writing because the directors of the Athenaeum library "have revoked the permission which they gave her some years ago to take out what books she chose." The price of a share is $100 and "Maria has raised $75 since yesterday morning, so we think she will succeed." Deborah inquires about Lizzy Chapman, and writes "Give my love to her. It seems like heaven without her."On page four of the letter, there is a brief note to Mrs. Anne Bates Weston from Anne Warren Weston.
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  1. Antislavery Movements
  2. Boston
  3. Child, Lydia Maria 1802 1880
  4. Correspondence
  5. Fletcher, Richard
  6. History
  7. Massachusetts
  8. Silliman, Benjamin 1779 1864
  9. Slaver
  10. United States
  11. Weston, Ann Bates 1785 1878
  12. Weston, Anne Warren 1812 1890
  13. Weston, Deborah B. 1814
  14. Women
  15. Women Abolitionists

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Diary by Deborah Weston, [Weymouth and Boston, Mass.], January 1, 1835, Thursday, [through Nov. 18, 1835, Wed.] Letter from Deborah Weston, Weymouth, [Mass.], to Maria Weston Chapman, 20 March [18]61 Letter from Deborah Weston, Boston, [Mass.], to Ann Bates Weston, June 8th, 1836 Letter from Anne Warren Weston, Weymouth, [Mass.], to Deborah Weston, Nov. 28, 1841. Sunday morning Letter from Anne Warren Weston, Boston, to Deborah Weston, Dec. 15, 1839, Sunday evening Letter from Caroline Weston, 11 West Street, Boston, to Anne Warren Weston, Aug. 13, 1835, Thursday morning Letter from Anne Warren Weston, Boston, to Deborah Weston, Oct. 22, 1836 Extracts from a letter from Anne Warren Weston, Summer Street, Boston, to Caroline Weston and Deborah Weston, May 22nd 1843 Letter from Anne Warren Weston, 31 Rivington St., New York, to Deborah Weston and Lucia Weston, May 11, 1842 Letter from Anne Warren Weston, Poplar St., Boston, to Deborah Weston, March 29, '41 Letter from Anne Warren Weston, 39 Summer St., [Boston], to Caroline Weston and Deborah Weston, Sunday, February 10, [1841?] Letter from Anne Warren Weston, Groton, [Mass.], to Deborah Weston, April 10, 1838, Tuesday evening Letter from Anne Warren Weston, Boston, to Deborah Weston, April 18, 1837, Tuesday evening Letter from Deborah Weston, Boston Fast(?), [Mass.], to Anne Warren Weston, April 9th / [18]51 Letter from Anne Warren Weston, Boston, to Deborah Weston, July 7, 1839, Sunday evening Letter from Lucia Weston, Boston, to Deborah Weston, [24 June?] 1839 Letter from Deborah Weston, New Bedford, [Mass.], to Maria Weston Chapman, [not after 1837 April 14] Incomplete letter from Anne Warren Weston, Boston, to Deborah Weston, May 15, 1839. Wednesday evening Letter from Deborah Weston, Boston, [Mass.], to Anne Warren Weston, Monday, [June] 6th, 1836 Letter from Anne Warren Weston, Boston, to Deborah Weston, Dec. 21, 1836, Wednesday afternoon
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