Letter from Mary Anne Estlin, Bristol, [England], Park St[reet], to Maria Weston Chapman, March 2, 1851
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Holograph, signed.The Estlins have heard via America of Caroline Weston's illness. Mary Anne Estlin admires Miss Weston's ability to describe her symptoms to "a medical adviser some hundred miles off [John Bishop Estlin]." She wishes to see Maria Weston Chapman and Miss Weston, but she does not consider Tintern a suitable meeting place. Mary A. Estlin explains the circumstances that led Mr. John B. Estlin to publish his anonymous article in the Morning Advertiser. She remarks how "Dr. [Ezra Stiles] Gannet & his fraternity in Boston must hate this mischief maker." She tells of Mrs. Armstrong's and Mary A. Estlin's own efforts at influencing opinion. It has been proposed that William W. Brown and the Crafts should come to Bristol. "Mr. [Andrew] Paton is indignant with Pennington." Mary A. Estlin tells of the dilemma of Miss Wigham, who differs from the majority of the committee which she represents. Mrs. Anna H. Richardson and her ally [Henry Highland] Garnet are hostile to the Garrisonians. Mary A. Estlin suspects that the Quaker lady at the anti-slavery meeting was a spy for Mrs. Richardson. She hopes to find the best introduction for Anne W. Weston's Bazaar Report for 1849. Mary A. Estlin is eager to prevent "the self-destructive act of uniting" the Free Labor movement with the anti-slavery committee's "awakening genuine anti-slavery zeal." Mrs. Eliza Lee Cabot Follen's health has improved. Anne W. Weston's "statement to Miss Wigham of her religious conviction" has been a great help, but "these views fail to give...
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- Antislavery Movements
- Armstrong, Mrs
- Boston
- Brown, William Wells 1814? 1884
- Carpenter, Russell Lant 1816 1892
- Chapman, Maria Weston 1806 1885
- Correspondence
- Craft, Ellen
- Craft, William
- Estlin, J. B. (John Bishop) 1785 1855
- Estlin, Mary Anne 1820 1902
- Follen, Eliza Lee Cabot 1787 1860
- Free Soil Party (U.S.)
- Gannett, Ezra S. (Ezra Stiles) 1801 1871
- Garnet, Henry Highland 1815 1882
- History
- Massachusetts
- Paton, Andrew 1805 1884
- Pennington
- Richardson, Anna H
- Slaver
- United States
- Weston, Anne Warren 1812 1890
- Weston, Caroline 1808 1882
- Women
- Women Abolitionists