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Holograph, signed.The first part of this letter is missing.Caroline Weston tells about measures adopted to circulate abolitionist petitions and to collect contributions. She tells about the letters read at the meeting and about Rev. Samuel May, Jr. Some of the letters were from a governess in a southern family who wrote about the flogging of a slave. She tells about a meeting in South Weymouth where Thomas Jefferson's administration was attacked for its pro-slavery attitude. She describes a church service and a railroad accident. Mrs. Lydia M. Child's new novel is coming out soon. She heard a rumor that an abolitionist novel is being suppressed. She tells of a quarrel between the Chapmans and the Higginsons over a church pew.

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