Letter from Anne Warren Weston, Boston, to Deborah Weston, Oct. 19, 1836

Title:: Letter from Anne Warren Weston, Boston, to Deborah Weston, Oct. 19, 1836
Author:: Weston, Anne Warren, 1812-1890
Addressee:: Weston, Debora, 1814-
Date:: October 19, 1836
Format:: Letters/Correspondence
Manuscripts
Location:: Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):: Anti-Slavery Collection
Subjects:: Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century
Women abolitionists--Massachusetts--Boston--19th century--Correspondence
Antislavery movements--United States
Women abolitionists--United States
Weston, Anne Warren, 1812-1890
Weston, Debora, 1814-
Child, David Lee, 1794-1874
Breckinridge, Robert J. (Robert Jefferson), 1800-1871
Places:: Massachusetts > Suffolk (county) > Boston
Extent:: 1 leaf (4 p.) ; 9 5/8 x 7 5/8 in.
Permalink:: https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/vm417g52h
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Place of origin:: Boston
Language:: English
Notes:: Holograph, signed.
The first page of this letter is mostly about Anne Warren Weston's friends, relatives, and social engagements. She tells a story about Senator Peyton of Tennessee. "David L. Child has gone to France & England. To France as the agent of a Sugar Manufacturing Company; & to England to see to some suits in chancery." Mrs. Chapman Sr. paid for the sign over the door of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society offices. She discusses teaching positions. She quotes from a letter written by Robert J. Breckenridge.
Identifier:: 3132217
Call #:: MS A.9.2 v.8, p.74
Barcode:: 39999063210270
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