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Letter from Edmund Quincy, Dedham, [Mass.], to Caroline Weston, July 9, 1843

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Holograph.Edmund Quincy writes this letter in a humorous vein: "King James [Sloan Gibbons] sways his lawful scepter unmolested and the baffled conspirators are mourning over the ruin of their hopes.Truly he is a new proof of the wisdom of the Chancellor Oxenstieras saying that it is marvellous how little wisdom it takes to govern the world." Edmund Quincy does not think that James S. Gibbons "had sense enough to show our letters to Mrs. [Lydia Maria] Child who would have understood them." He thinks that at the next annual meeting "the whole Hopper clique" will be removed and Jones put in to stand for the American Society at New York. He commends the progress of the Hundred Conventions. Charles L. Remond has consented to go into the field at $100 per annum. Edmund Quincy quotes an ironic remark about Stephen S. Foster and his "courting expenses." He comments on the resiliency of John A. Collins's health.The end of this letter is missing.
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Keywords

  1. American Anti Slavery Society
  2. Antislavery Movements
  3. Boston
  4. Child, Lydia Maria 1802 1880
  5. Collins, John A. (John Anderson) 1810 1879
  6. Correspondence
  7. Foster, Stephen S. (Stephen Symonds) 1809 1881
  8. Gibbons, J. S. (James Sloan) 1810 1892
  9. History
  10. Massachusetts
  11. Quincy, Edmund 1808 1877
  12. Slaver
  13. United States
  14. Weston, Caroline 1808 1882
  15. Women
  16. Women Abolitionists

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