Letter from Richard Davis Webb, Dublin, [Ireland], to Caroline Weston, 14th of October 1851
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Holograph, signed.Richard Davis Webb presumably wrote this letter to Caroline Weston.Richard Davis Webb hears continually from Miss Estlin. He thinks it important to keep the Bristol Anti-Slavery Society on its high level and "to form a nucleus there to counteract the schemes of New Broad Street." Richard D. Webb is glad that Caroline Weston has sent to America for a "full and clear statement of the doings in 1840." He comments on "the prevalent ignorance & indifference of the English to the politics, circumstances, & private history of other people," which makes them easity imposed upon. He tells of a fraudulent collection made in Dublin by a pseudo George Thompson. Richard D. Webb has asked Miss Estlin to send a copy of (John) Bigelow's book, from which Professor Hancock took extracts for a lecture on the West Indies. He discusses Hancock's views on the compensation of slaveholders. The Dublin Anti-Slavery Society consists chiefly of Quakers; many have been "set going to work for the Boston Bazaar." Richard D. Webb discourses on his home and his children. He writes of the kind hospitality he hopes to offer Caroline Weston. He received a "gay, friendly" letter from Emma Weston, who is still in England. Richard D. Webb is glad that Caroline Weston has seen so much of Lady Byron, whom he regards with deep veneration. He mentions the damage caused between George Thompson with his constituents, which Richard D. Webb traces to the hostility of the people connected with New Broad Street,...
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- Abolitionists
- Antislavery Movements
- Boston
- Byron, Anne Isabella Milbanke Byron, Baroness 1792 1860
- Correspondence
- Estlin, Mary Anne 1820 1902
- Foley, John Henry 1818 1874
- Grant, James 1802 1879
- Great Britain
- Harvey, William H. (William Henry) 1811 1866
- History
- Ireland
- Kossuth, Lajos 1802 1894
- Massachusetts
- Slaver
- Slavery
- Thompson, George 1804 1878
- United States
- Webb, Richard Davis 1805 1872
- West Indies
- Weston, Caroline 1808 1882
- Women
- Women Abolitionists