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Holograph, signed.In this letter, Abby Kelley Foster introduces her sister Lucy "who visits Boston at this time to attend the Fair. She would be happy to receive whatever suggestions she can as to the best manner of conducting Fairs, as we trust the little sewing circle recently formed in this place will get up a sale of useful articles occasionally, and do whatever they can in other ways to subserve the cause. That you will have a happy week, this, I doubt not, and my earnest desire is that there may be no sting left behind, but that upon reflection all may feel satisfied that whatever has been done has promoted righteousness---has been to the glory of God." Abby Kelley Foster continues: "One word as the Mass. Society. Why do they not send out their agents. I am in wonder when I look at the condition of affairs in the state. It will not do. I protest against it in the name of the slave. ...I blush for Mass. while I am abroad and were I not absolutely bound to absent myself I would not for a day. I am at home now for a little time in consequence of sickness in our family. It was well for me that I was sent for, as I found on sitting down in my own home and throwing off all thought of what I 'must do,' I was myself quite sick. Tis very trying even to a good constitution, this going from...

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