Letter from Richard Davis Webb, Dublin, [Ireland], to Mary Anne Estlin, 1851 April 23
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Holograph, signed.Title devised by cataloger.Richard Davis Webb writes to Mary Anne Estlin in regards to sending her 10 copies of the Bazaar Gazette. He praises her father's speech on the infidelity of the American abolitionists. He was informed by his secretary how easily Quakers become frightened at the threat to their orthodoxy. He writes of a "wicked compromise" of sweet little Eliza Wigham that Miss Weston "stormed so about. As the Yankees say, 'Do tell.' "
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- Antislavery Movements
- Christianity
- Correspondence
- England
- Estlin, J. B. (John Bishop) 1785 1855
- Estlin, Mary Anne 1820 1902
- Great Britain
- History
- Newspapers
- Publishers And Publishing
- Publishing
- Quaker Abolitionists
- Quakers
- Religious Aspects
- Slaver
- Society Of Friends
- United States
- Webb, Richard Davis 1805 1872
- Weston, Anne Warren 1812 1890
- Wigham, Eliza
- Women
- Women Abolitionists
- Women Social Reformers