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Letter from Anne Warren Weston, Boston, to Deborah Weston, March 8, 1839

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Holograph, signed.Anne Warren Weston describes an argument over a proposal to call a meeting of the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society. Mrs. Maria W. Chapman wanted to send a letter to Henry Clay for the purpose of considering a meeting. Mentions seeing Amos A. Phelps at church, "looking miserably." Tells of calls made and received, a fancy dress ball to be given by Mrs. Richard Derby, John James Dixwell's costume, and John A. Collins, a newly appointed as an agent of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society.
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Keywords

  1. Antislavery Movements
  2. Boston
  3. Boston Female Anti Slavery Society
  4. Clay, Henry 1777 1852
  5. Collins, John A. (John Anderson) 1810 1879
  6. Correspondence
  7. History
  8. Massachusetts
  9. Phelps, Amos A. (Amos Augustus) 1805 1847
  10. Slaver
  11. United States
  12. Weston, Anne Warren 1812 1890
  13. Weston, Deborah B. 1814
  14. Women
  15. Women Abolitionists

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