Letter from Anne Warren Weston, Boston -- West St, to Deborah Weston, Oct. 3'd, 1840, Saturday morning
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Holograph, signed.Anne Warren Weston tells about J.A. Collin's departure for England. Hervey Weston packed his trunk. Gives contents of a letter from Harriet Martineau and reports on an article contributed to the Liberty Bell by Lady Byron. James and Lucretia Mott and Mary Grew have returned. At the monthly concert of prayer for the slaves, "Mr. [William] Ladd peeled like an onion." She gave Dr. Taylor an "abundance of good advice." N.P. Rogers and his wife dined here. Anne describes Mrs. Rogers. Comments of W.O. Duvall, who "seems to see through millstones." Oliver Johnson is going to New York to edit(?) the Standard, with Rogers to write leading articles." George Combe declined writing for the Liberty Bell because he was writing a phrenological book in which he discusses slavery. Gives dates of forthcoming anti-slavery fairs. Tells of cases of typhus fever.
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- Anti Slavery Fairs
- Antislavery Movements
- Boston
- Byron, Anne Isabella Milbanke Byron, Baroness 1792 1860
- Collins, John A. (John Anderson) 1810 1879
- Combe, George 1788 1858
- Correspondence
- History
- Johnson, Oliver 1809 1889
- Ladd, William 1778 1841
- Martineau, Harriet 1802 1876
- Massachusetts
- Rogers, Nathaniel Peabody 1794 1846
- Slaver
- Typhus Fever
- United States
- Weston, Anne Warren 1812 1890
- Weston, Deborah B. 1814
- Women
- Women Abolitionists