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Letter from Abby Osgood, New Bedford, [Mass.], to Deborah Weston, April 19th [1838]

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Holograph, signed.This letter is presumably by Abby Osgood. Abby tells Deborah Weston of the activities of various mutual acquaintances in New Bedford, where Mr. & Mrs. Peabody "are now the lions of the town." Abby writes that "Mr. Emerson's school-house is being rapidly transformed into a dwelling house, ..." Ellen Horton is going away to Leicester to a Quaker boarding school.There is an envelope with Call No. Ms.A.9.2 v.5, p.50. Sent by an unknown person. It is addressed to: Miss D. Weston, Weymouth, Mass. It is postmarked New York, Oct. 11.
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Keywords

  1. Antislavery Movements
  2. Boston
  3. Correspondence
  4. Emerson, John F
  5. History
  6. Massachusetts
  7. Osgood, Abby 1814 1862
  8. Slaver
  9. United States
  10. Weston, Deborah B. 1814
  11. Women
  12. Women Abolitionists

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