Letter from Richard Davis Webb, Dublin, [Ireland], to Maria Weston Chapman, Sunday, May 29, 1859
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Holograph, signed.Richard Davis Webb tells about his son's embarkation on a ship bound for Australia. Alfred Webb was going on the voyage for his health. He mentions William Lloyd Garrison's voyage to England in 1840 and his cool reception by the Gurneys, etc. Richard D. Webb tells how he came to meet Harriet Martineau. He discusses at length the Australian voyage and Alfred's fellow passengers, the consignment of merchandise for sale, and the arrangements for paying for his passage. He discusses the relations of Joseph Sturge with the American Anti-Slavery Society. The British public thinks well of Sturge's abolitionism. Webb likes L. A. Chamerovzow, who is having trouble winning over the Committee of the British & Foreign Anti-Slavery Society to an alliance with the American abolitionists. Webb met George Thompson in London. Joseph Sturge was pleased with Calvin Ellis Stowe's speech at the annual meeting of the British & Foreign Anti-Slavery Society. Professor Stowe repeated his speech at a meeting of the Free Labor Produce Association. Webb comments on the value of the National Anti-Slavery Standard and the Anti-Slavery Advocate. He discusses the cost of printing the Advocate. Webb asked W. Tweedie about the Advocate's chances of survival. Tweedie said they were poor. Webb likes James Miller M'Kim very much. He met the Estlins, Sarah Pugh, and others in London. William and Ellen Craft intend to run a lodging house. Webb writes that "there is that witty man W. P. Powell and his family who have emigrated from N. York...
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- American Anti Slavery Society
- Anti Slavery Advocate
- Antislavery Movements
- Boston
- British And Foreign Anti Slavery Society
- Cabot, Susan C. (Susan Copley) 1794 1861
- Chamerovzow, Louis Alexis
- Chapman, Edwin
- Chapman, Maria Weston 1806 1885
- Correspondence
- Craft, Ellen
- Craft, William
- Follen, Eliza Lee Cabot 1787 1860
- Garrison, William Lloyd 1805 1879
- Hilditch, Sarah
- History
- M'kim, J. Miller (James Miller) 1810 1874
- Martineau, Harriet 1802 1876
- Massachusetts
- National Anti Slavery Standard
- Nichol, Elizabeth Pease 1807 1897
- Powell, William P. 1806 1875
- Slaver
- Stowe, C. E. (Calvin Ellis) 1802 1886
- Stowe, Harriet Beecher 1811 1896
- Sturge, Joseph 1793 1859
- Thompson, George 1804 1878
- United States
- Webb, Alfred 1834 1908
- Webb, Richard Davis 1805 1872
- Women
- Women Abolitionists