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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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