Letter from Lucia Weston, Boston, [Mass.], to Deborah Weston, March 3rd, 1836

Title:: Letter from Lucia Weston, Boston, [Mass.], to Deborah Weston, March 3rd, 1836
Author:: Weston, Lucia, 1822-1861
Addressee:: Weston, Deborah, b. 1814
Date:: March 3, 1836
Format:: Letters/Correspondence
Manuscripts
Location:: Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):: Anti-Slavery Collection
Subjects:: Anti-slavery fairs
Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century
Women abolitionists--Massachusetts--Boston--19th century--Correspondence
Antislavery movements--United States
Women abolitionists--United States
Weston, Lucia, 1822-1861
Weston, Deborah, b. 1814
Phillips, Wendell, 1811-1884
Stanton, Henry B. (Henry Brewster), 1805-1887
Places:: Massachusetts > Suffolk (county) > Boston
Extent:: 1 leaf (4 p.) ; 9 1/4 x 7 7/8 in.
Permalink:: https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/7s75dn007
Terms of Use:: No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.

Place of origin:: Boston, [Mass.]
Language:: English
Notes:: Holograph, signed with initials.
In this letter, Lucia Weston wrote: "Wendell made his 'maiden speech' it was I heard a very fine one." Henry B. Stanton and Wendell Phillips planned that the latter should speak before the legislature. The box from the ladies of Darlington, England, arrived with a letter from George Thompson. Lucia relates that "about one thousand mobbers" were gathered when Gershaw(?) lectured to the Ladies [Anti-Slavery Society?], and "every lady that came out was hissed." Mrs. [Thankful Hussey] Southwick "was on the spot and addressed several of the men." Lucia and Caroline Weston went to the Smith school house to help teach in the colored school.
Identifier:: 3132819
Call #:: Ms.A.9.2 v.8, p.15A
Barcode:: 39999063098998
mq8390218

View MODS XML

Tools