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Letter from Mary Anne Estlin, Park St., Bristol, [England], to Caroline Weston, May 16, 1851

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Holograph, signed.Caroline Weston rejoices that Caroline Weston is within a penny postage limit. Mary A. Estlin spent the last month in bed and is "still a pretty close prisoner" there, but is glad that she did not break down while her father depended on her nursing. Mary A. Estlin and Richard Davis Webb will defend Eliza Wigham against the Caroline Weston's accusations. She explains at length why the epithets that Caroline Weston applies to the New Organization in America does not fit in Great Britain. Most of the English abolitionists would be antagonized if the partisans of the American Anti-Slavery Society "were to adopt Mr. [Andrew] Paton's course & noisily proclaim in season and out of season the claims of that Society..." Mary A. Estlin, Richard Davis Webb, and Eliza Wigham wish to enlist the cooperation of anti-slavery sympathizers of all types. Eliza Wigham "chose the least of two evils in her conduct relative to the Edinburgh soiree." When J.W.C. Pennington and J. Henson have been discredited, "Garnet will be our chief remaining antagonist among the colored ministers." Mary A. Estlin speaks affectionately of Ellen Craft.Also with the same Call No. is an unrelated envelope, with the delivery address: Rev. Samuel May, 21 Cornhill, Boston. It is postmarked May 21, Weymouth, Mass.
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Keywords

  1. Abolitionists
  2. Antislavery Movements
  3. Boston
  4. Correspondence
  5. Craft, Ellen
  6. Craft, William
  7. Estlin, Mary Anne 1820 1902
  8. Garnet, Henry Highland 1815 1882
  9. Henson, Josiah 1789 1883
  10. History
  11. Massachusetts
  12. Paton, Andrew 1805 1884
  13. Pennington, James W. C
  14. Scotland
  15. Slaver
  16. United States
  17. Webb, Richard Davis 1805 1872
  18. Weston, Caroline 1808 1882
  19. Wigham, Eliza
  20. Women
  21. Women Abolitionists

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