Skip to main content

Letter from Emma Forbes Weston to Deborah Weston, Thursday, Dec. 15, 1836

Thumbnail for Letter from Emma Forbes Weston to Deborah Weston, Thursday, Dec. 15, 1836
View
@ Boston Public Library

Description

Holograph, signed.Emma Forbes Weston is a child of of about 11 years when she writes this letter. She has begun the study of French. She went to Melania Ammidon's wedding. She discusses an anti-slavery fair that is approaching. She describes some handbags sent by Mrs. Smith [perhaps Evelina A.S. Smith, who was the wife of Increase S. Smith]. She tells of the threatened burning of Richard Hildreth's book, Archy Moore.
Type:
Text
Format:
Correspondence Manuscripts
Rights:
No known copyright restrictions.No known restrictions on use.
View Original At:

Record Contributed By

Boston Public Library

Record Harvested From

Digital Commonwealth

Keywords

  1. Ammidon, Melania
  2. Anti Slavery Fairs
  3. Antislavery Movements
  4. Boston
  5. Correspondence
  6. Hildreth, Richard 1807 1865
  7. History
  8. Massachusetts
  9. Slaver
  10. Smith, Evelina A. S
  11. United States
  12. Weston, Deborah B. 1814
  13. Weston, Emma Forbes B. 1825
  14. Women
  15. Women Abolitionists

Related Content

Letter from Lucia Weston, Boston, [Mass.], to Deborah Weston, December 15th, 1836 Letter from Lucia Weston, Boston, [Mass.], to Deborah Weston, Monday, July [18?], [1839?] Letter from Maria Weston Chapman, Paris, [France], to Anne Warren Weston, Deborah Weston, Lucia Weston, and Emma Forbes Weston, Nov. 14, 1848 Letter from Deborah Weston to Emma Forbes Weston and Lucia Weston, [183?] Letter from Anne Warren Weston, Boston, to Deborah Weston, Dec. 6th, 1836, Tuesday afternoon or rather evening Letter from Anne Warren Weston, Boston, to Deborah Weston, Dec.15, 1836, Thursday evening Letter from Hervey Eliphaz Weston, [Boston?, Mass.], to Deborah Weston, Friday night, Oct. 10, 1834 Letter from Anne Warren Weston, Boston, to Deborah Weston, Feb. 13, 1837, Monday morning Letter from Anne Warren Weston, Boston, to Deborah Weston, Dec. 15, 1839, Sunday evening Letter from Anne Warren Weston, Boston, to Deborah Weston, Oct. 25 [through 30th], 1837, Wednesday evening Letter from Anne Warren Weston, Boston, to Deborah Weston, Oct. 22, 1836 Letter from Anne Warren Weston, Poplar St., Boston, to Deborah Weston, March 29, '41 Letter from Anne Warren Weston, 39 Summer Street, [Boston], to Caroline Weston and Deborah Weston, Sept. 28, 1843 Letter from Caroline Weston, Boston, [Mass.], to Deborah Weston, March 3, 1837, Friday noon Letter from Anne Warren Weston, West St., [Boston], to Deborah Weston, March 1, 1839, Friday morning Letter from Anne Warren Weston to Deborah Weston, January 6, 1837 Letter from Anne Warren Weston, Boston, to Deborah Weston, Nov. 19, 1836, Saturday evening Incomplete letter from Deborah Weston, New Bedford, [Mass.], to Anne Warren Weston, Jan. 22, 1836, Sunday evening [through Jan. 25, 1836] Letter from Anne Warren Weston, [Boston?], to Deborah Weston, Nov. 20, 1837, Monday morning Incomplete letter from Anne Warren Weston, 39 Summer Street, [Boston], to Caroline Weston and Deborah Weston, [1845?]
Download JSON