Letter from Sophia Davenport, St. Louis, [Missouri], to Caroline Weston, March 5

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Title:
Letter from Sophia Davenport, St. Louis, [Missouri], to Caroline Weston, March 5
Description:
Sophia Davenport writes to Caroline Weston in regards to her mail being delayed. She writes of her delight in receiving George Thompson's autograph: "I look at it every day, what would I give for one glimpse of his beautiful face, I envy you the delightful privilege corresponding with him, his letters in the Liberator are splendid." She tries to get a man named Mr. Elliot to convert to abolitionism. She writes of an argument with a slaveholder in which she was joined by Miss Cleaveland. She writes that balls are the main type of formal evening entertainment in St. Louis and she had no desire to go but her "friends persuaded me to and I am not sorry that I went, it is the only way one can get acquainted here, the people are not fond of sociable visiting." She met a young Scotsman named Mackenzie. She regrets that Caroline has had to give up her school. She asks what happened to Hannah Hinckley. She wishes Harriet Martineau would write something of slavery. She mentions a Mr. Schutze who had met the Westons in Boston. She was unable to attend a lecture the night previously about the legal relations between husband and wife. She heard it was interesting and she knows "he was on the husband's side of course and thought the wife ought to submit and obey &c."
Author:
Davenport, Sophia
Addressee:
Weston, Caroline, 1808-1882
Date:
[ca. March 5, 1832–March 5, 1867]
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Manuscripts
Location:
Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):
Anti-Slavery Collection
Subjects:
Lectures and lecturing--United States--History--19th century
Women abolitionists--United States--History--19th century--Correspondence
Women social reformers--United States--History--19th century
Abolitionists--United States--19th century--Correspondence
Antislavery movements--Newspapers--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--Publishing--United States--History--19th century
Women's rights--United States--History--19th century
Lectures and lecturing
Women abolitionists--United States
Women social reformers--United States
Abolitionists--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--United States
Publishers and publishing
Slavery
Weston, Caroline, 1808-1882
Davenport, Sophia
Thompson, George, 1804-1878
Martineau, Harriet, 1802-1876
Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885
Liberator (Boston, Mass. : 1831)
Extent:
1 leaf (4 p.) ; 27 cm.
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/2z110946q
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
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Place of origin:
St. Louis, [Missouri]
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
Title devised by cataloger.
Identifier:
5863710
Call #:
MS A.9.2 v.6, p.93
Barcode:
39999085839874