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Letter from Mary Merrick Brooks, Concord, [Mass.], to Caroline Weston, Nov. 19th / [18]45

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Holograph, signed.Ralph Waldo Emerson refused to lecture before the New Bedford Lyceum when he learned of the colored people's expulsion "from their accustomed privileges of being received as members" of the Lyceum. Mary Merrick Brooks thinks the enemies of the colored people may try to keep Mr. Emerson's refusal a secret. Mary M. Brooks offers the services of a Miss Jervis of Concord to Caroline Weston at the Boston anti-slavery fair.Also enclosed is a print (visual work) of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1854, artist unknown. It is a head-and-shoulders portrait of Emerson facing right. Handwritten in pencil beneath the image, is: "Emerson, Vol. I."
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  1. Abolitionists
  2. Antislavery Movements
  3. Boston
  4. Brooks, Mary Merrick 1801 1868
  5. Correspondence
  6. Emerson, Ralph Waldo 1803 1882
  7. History
  8. Lyceums
  9. Massachusetts
  10. New Bedford
  11. Racism
  12. Slaver
  13. United States
  14. Weston, Caroline 1808 1882
  15. Women
  16. Women Abolitionists

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