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Letter from Mary Merrick Brooks, Concord, [Mass.], to Caroline Weston, Nov. 24th / [18]45

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Holograph, signed.Mary Merrick Brooks writes: "You may say from me that Mr. E[merson] will not lecture before the Lyceum." Ralph Waldo Emerson argued that the Lyceum was "a popular thing designed for the benefit of all, particularly for the most ignorant." He would not know how to address an assembly from which this class was excluded, and "if any were excluded, it should be the cultivated classes." Mary M. Brooks hopes that Charles Sumner will also refuse to lecture. Sometimes Mary M. Brooks regrets being an abolitionist because of the knowledge gained of injustice and wrong. Mr. Emerson says that his friend Benjamin Rodman should have signed "that protest." The Misses Thoreau will go to the Boston fair; Mary M. Brooks would be glad if anyone could accomodate them for a few days.
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  1. Antislavery Movements
  2. Boston
  3. Brooks, Mary Merrick 1801 1868
  4. Correspondence
  5. Emerson, Ralph Waldo 1803 1882
  6. History
  7. Lyceums
  8. Massachusetts
  9. Racism
  10. Rodman, Benjamin
  11. Slaver
  12. Thoreau, Misses
  13. United States
  14. Weston, Caroline 1808 1882
  15. Women
  16. Women Abolitionists

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