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Letter from Deborah Weston, [Boston, Mass.], to Anne Warren Weston, Nov. 17th, 1840, Monday eve'g

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Holograph.Deborah Weston begins the letter by saying "the battle has begun," regarding the Chardon Street Convention. Deborah describes the sudden arrival of Dea[con] Tarbell and Mrs. [Lucy] Sessions at the Chapmans. She gives an account of the convention, which was "exceedingly mixed--the fashionables & the 'come outers'--all jumbled up together. [Ralph] Waldo Emerson & wife, [Amos Bronson] Alcott, T.[heodore] Parker & [George?] Ripley & e[tc]." It is rumored that the "Mass. A[bolitionist]" newspaper has lost 1500 subscribers. "[Theodore] Parker spoke against the Sabbath." In the evening, Dr. Samuel Osgood defended the Sabbath; Deborah comments that Osgood was "very dull & stupid." Garrison answered him, "mounted on his gospel horse." She describes a sharp altercation between Amos A. Phelps and Maria Weston Chapman after the meeting. Deborah comments on Amos Phelps's speech that he gave the following day, and also reports that "Alcott spoke...in his own peculiar style."
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Keywords

  1. Alcott, Amos Bronson 1799 1888
  2. Antislavery Movements
  3. Boston
  4. Chapman, Maria Weston 1806 1885
  5. Correspondence
  6. History
  7. Massachusetts
  8. Phelps, Amos A. (Amos Augustus) 1805 1847
  9. Slaver
  10. United States
  11. Weston, Anne Warren 1812 1890
  12. Weston, Deborah B. 1814
  13. Women
  14. Women Abolitionists

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