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Letter from Anne Warren Weston, 39 Summer Street, [Boston], to Caroline Weston and Deborah Weston, Nov. 10, 1843. Friday morning

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Holograph, signed.Anne Warren Weston describes an anti-slavery meeting in Milton. "There is to be a great Temperance Meeting at Weymouth on Wed. & Thursday." The Democrats are voting for Sampson Perkins for Congress. "The Grew boys were here this afternoon raising Cain."On page three of this letter, is a short note to Caroline [Weston], signed H.E.W.,perhaps her brother, Hervey E. Weston.Attached to the verso of this letter is a fragment, dated 19 June 1843. Anne Warren Weston tells briefly of the visit of President John Tyler to Bunker Hill. Tyler is accompanied by both free black servants and black slaves.
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