Letter from Edmund Quincy, Dedham, [Mass.], to Caroline Weston, Jan. 21, 1840
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Holograph, signed.Edmund Quincy was not prepared for the thousand dollars (transmitted by John A. Collins). He emphasizes the obligation to help Collins, "to place him in his true position before the English Abolitionists." He sympathizes with Caroline Weston's indignation at Nathaniel Colver, but advises her not to worry about his punishment. Edmund Quincy comments about Colver: "Don't you know that he is damned already?" And elaborates on this idea. He describes a book called Child Album, by J. S. C. Abbott, which presents a "notion of Heaven" that seems to Edmund Quincy neither attractive nor convincing. Edmund Quincy misses the Chapmans. He tells of a meeting in Dedham to hear William Lloyd Garrison. He refers to "[Joel P.] Bishops and John Smiths absurdities" in connection with the next anti-slavery meeting. He objects to holding the meeting at Hines Chapel.
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- Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) 1805 1877
- Antislavery Movements
- Bishop, Joel Prentiss 1814 1901
- Boston
- Collins, John A. (John Anderson) 1810 1879
- Colver, Nathaniel 1794 1870
- Correspondence
- History
- Massachusetts
- Quincy, Edmund 1808 1877
- Slaver
- United States
- Weston, Caroline 1808 1882
- Women
- Women Abolitionists