Letter from Anne Warren Weston to Deborah Weston, Sept. 19, 1837, Tuesday evening
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Holograph, signed.Anne Warren Weston describes seeing aquaintances. She says that Lucretia (Cowing) is going to Maryland as a teacher in the family of the Governor, the post having been secured for her through the offices of Caroline Weston. "We have proed & conned the matter over, & finally have decided to cast Lucretia, Anti-Slavery & all, on the tender mercies of the Marylanders ... I do not think she can bear a testimony worthy of lynching." She praises and describes Mrs. Maria Weston Chapman's baby. She thinks that "poor Mary Chapman" is growing more melancholy. Wonders "what is to become of Ann Terry [Greene] ... I should not think she could board in a common boarding house." Anne Weston helped Mrs. Maria Weston Chapman seal and direct petitions, which have to be sent both to the House and Senate. "All Boston is taken up with the Mechanics Fair ..." She is much troubled with "that old lameness & soreness in my chest." Reflects with distress on the death of Ann Greene Chapman. Comments on statements by Charles Fitch and Joseph H. Towne in the Spectator. She considers them very weak.
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- Antislavery Movements
- Boston
- Chapman, Maria Weston 1806 1885
- Chapman, Mary Gray 1798 1874
- Correspondence
- History
- Massachusetts
- Phillips, Ann Terry Greene 1813 1886
- Slaver
- Towne, Joseph H. (Joseph Hardy) 1805 1897
- United States
- Weston, Anne Warren 1812 1890
- Weston, Deborah B. 1814
- Women
- Women Abolitionists