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Letter from Richard Davis Webb, Dublin, [Ireland], to Miss Weston, April 4, 1851

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Weston, Miss

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Holograph, signed.Richard Davis Webb presumably sent this letter to Miss Weston.In this letter, Richard Davis Webb introduces Francis Jennings, the brother of Isabel Jennings. Francis Jennings is "a chemist of no mean standing." He sympathized with Father T. Mathew rather than the abolitionists. Richard D. Webb calls Francis Jennings "an admirable specimen of the outer Barbarian of our Celestial Empire." Two anti-slavery societies have been formed in Dublin. Richard D. Webb is secretary of one and Mary Edmundson is the secretary of the other. James Haughton was made vice president. Richard D. Webb says: "We have just had a long letter from Eliz. Pease," who relays a warning from Wendell Phillips of an impending invasion by Charles Spear. Webb refers to George Thompson's successes. He talks about going to London to see Miss Weston. Richard D. Webb's sister, Mrs. Juliot, is going to Australia if her husband can raise the money for the passage. Harriet Martineau wanted Richard D. Webb to assist her in "promoting the knowledge" of a new discovery for the preservation of Indian meal. Harriet Martineau is trying to get (William and Ellen) Craft educated in one of Lady Byron's schools.
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Keywords

  1. Abolitionists
  2. Antislavery Movements
  3. Boston
  4. Correspondence
  5. Craft, Ellen
  6. Craft, William
  7. Haughton, James 1795 1873
  8. History
  9. Ireland
  10. Jennings, Francis
  11. Martineau, Harriet 1802 1876
  12. Massachusetts
  13. Nichol, Elizabeth Pease 1807 1897
  14. Slaver
  15. Spear, Charles 1801 1863
  16. Thompson, George 1804 1878
  17. United States
  18. Webb, Richard Davis 1805 1872
  19. Weston, Miss
  20. Women
  21. Women Abolitionists

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