Letter from Anne Warren Weston, Weymouth, [Mass.], to Maria Weston Chapman, Feb. 25, 1841, Thursday evening
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Holograph, signed.Anne Warren Weston reports on the welfare of Mrs. Maria W. Chapman's children. Little Henry "bids fair to know how to read some time or other." Little Ann continues to be "the very queen of hearts." Relates how George Bradburn, invited to speak at a temperance meeting, fled on seeing Nathaniel Colver. Mr. Amos Bronson Alcott has no lights in his house "because he will not sanction killing whale." Anne W. Weston has written several articles for the Offering, which will "get along somehow till the 20th of March when Collins is expected." She mentions the kind hospitality of Henrietta Sargent. "I don't think L.M.C. [Lydia Maria Child?] treats them [the Sargents] with all the attention she might." "The Weymouth people are looking a very great interest in the Herald of Freedom, 7 or 8 people here are beginning to take it. It almost cuts out the Liberator." Abby Kelley thinks of joining the Community (Brook Farm). "Mr. [Geoge] Ripley highly admires her..."
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- Alcott, Amos Bronson 1799 1888
- Antislavery Movements
- Boston
- Bradburn, George 1806 1880
- Chapman, Maria Weston 1806 1885
- Colver, Nathaniel 1794 1870
- Correspondence
- Foster, Abby Kelley 1811 1887
- Herald Of Freedom (Concord, N.H. : 1835)
- History
- Massachusetts
- Ripley, George 1802 1880
- Sargent, Henrietta
- Slaver
- United States
- Weston, Anne Warren 1812 1890
- Women
- Women Abolitionists