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Holograph, signed.Title devised by cataloger.Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) manuscript contains a seal on the back of the letter.Richard Davis Webb writes to Mary Anne Estlin in regards to being unable to go to London immediately. When he does go, he wants to have the company of Mary Anne and her father. He has a proposition for a convention but it was "nothing very formal or serious." He doesn't think it will be difficult to bring together the friends of the American Anti-Slavery Society, "aided by the presence of the Westons." He received letters from Anne Warren Weston and Caroline Weston. The Ladies Anti-Slavery Society Committee is about to issue an appeal to the clergy in Ireland. He writes, "antislavery is a more popular subject from having been more & more efectively agitated in England than in Ireland." He writes of disagreements between the American Anti-Slavery Society and the British & Foreign Anti-Slavery Society and says that he would by no means "surrender our own ideas of the best war of helping the cause."

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