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Holograph, signed.Anne Warren Weston approves of [J. G.] Alvord's report and resolution on Texas. Amos A. Phelps wants to get the Odeon for Anti-Slavery meetings, because the Free Church won't give him its church. Mrs. Lydia M. Child saw an article on Angelina E. Grimke in the Mercantile Journal. Anne describes the details of the voting on the report (of Mrs. Maria W. Chapman) and other proceedings at a meeting of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society, and criticizes a request made by Garrison for permission to alter his report. "I cannot depend on Garrison as I used to." The Board accepted [Alanson] St. Clair's services as an agent, voted thanks to Angelina E. Grimke and requested the Grimkes to continue their work in Massachusetts. Edmund Quincy behaved sweetly. Mrs. Maria W. Chapman is to review the Life of McDowall. She thinks that Theodore D. Weld might be the author. "It is too free to be written by [Joshua] Leavitt. It produced a very great effect on my mind ... it has altered my feelings to the cause of Moral Reform more than anything I ever read before ..." Says that Dr. Amos Farnsworth should buy it. [The Life of McDowall referred to is: Memoir and Select Remains of the Late Rev. J.R. M'Dowall: the Martyr of the Seventh Commandment in the Nineteenth Century, New York, Leavitt, Lord & Co., 1838.] Also wishes him to take "The Friend of Virtue," the last number of which contains a good article by David Child....

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