Letter from Elizabeth Pease Nichol, Ben Rhydding, [England], to Anne Warren Weston, Feb'y 9, 1852
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Holograph, signed.Elizabeth Pease Nichol met Mrs. Chapman and her party in London. She attended the last sitting of the Peace Congress and visited the great Exhibition. While visiting in Bristol, she became acquainted with the Estlins. On returning to relatives, Elizabeth Pease Nichol found a cousin very ill and stayed with her. Elizabeth Pease Nichol's health was affected by the prolonged stay in a southern climate during the hot season and she resorted to this "fountain of health." The Estlins are working hard for the cause and Mrs. Massman's advocacy in London has doubtless "interested many & done much to open the eyes of others to the degree of confidence that ought to be placed in the Broad St. Committee." Elizabeth Pease Nichol maintains that in Scotland they have more knowledge and "a strong feeling exists in favour of the true Abolitionists." Elizabeth Pease Nichol was disappointed that before she reached London, Mrs. Eliza Lee Cabot Follen had left the country. She was delighted to meet George Thompson. She sends a message to Wendell and Ann Phillips, whom Elizabeth Pease Nichol hopes to see in this country. Elizabeth Pease Nichol read Wendell Phillips's speech on Kossuth in America "with perfect delight." She describes Mazzini, with whom Elizabeth Pease Nichol spent an evening. Elizabeth Pease Nichol comments: "I cannot think he would have acted as Kossuth has regarding American Slavery." She remarks on H. C. Wright's physical strength and hopes William Lloyd Garrison's health is better. She comments on the political...
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- Abolitionists
- Antislavery Movements
- Boston
- British And Foreign Anti Slavery Society
- Chapman, Maria Weston 1806 1885
- Correspondence
- Estlin, J. B. (John Bishop) 1785 1855
- Follen, Eliza Lee Cabot 1787 1860
- France
- History
- Massachusetts
- Massman, Mrs
- Mazzini, Giuseppe 1805 1872
- Nichol, Elizabeth Pease 1807 1897
- Peace Movements
- Phillips, Wendell 1811 1884
- Scotland
- Second Republic, 1848 1852
- Slaver
- Thompson, George 1804 1878
- United States
- Weston, Anne Warren 1812 1890
- Women
- Women Abolitionists
- Wright, Henry Clarke 1797 1870