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Letter from George Thompson, Rockton, Valley of the Mohawk, [NY], to Anne Warren Weston, Feb. 24, 1851, 1/2 p.[past] 9 a.m

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Holograph, signed with initials.George Thompson describes the convention in Union Village; S.S.F. [Stephen Symonds Foster] attacked church organizations and Abby [Kelly Foster] "made a masterly (no mistressly) speech." Thompson received vociferous applause for his replies to a critic. Thompson closes the letter by saying: "Can you put up with these epistles? If you can you shall hear more concerning the rambles of an Incendiary."Includes, accompanying envelope with the delivery address: "Messrs. Goodhue & Co., New York City." With a notation in the lower left corner: "For Miss A. W. Weston."
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Keywords

  1. Antislavery Movements
  2. Boston
  3. Correspondence
  4. Foster, Abby Kelley 1811 1887
  5. Foster, Stephen S. (Stephen Symonds) 1809 1881
  6. History
  7. Massachusetts
  8. Slaver
  9. Thompson, George 1804 1878
  10. United States
  11. Weston, Anne Warren 1812 1890
  12. Women
  13. Women Abolitionists

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