Letter from Caroline Weston, Boston, to Deborah Weston, Sat. morning, [1842?]

Title:: Letter from Caroline Weston, Boston, to Deborah Weston, Sat. morning, [1842?]
Author:: Weston, Caroline, 1808-1882
Addressee:: Weston, Deborah, b. 1814
Date:: [1842?]
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, Caroline, 1808-1882
Weston, Deborah, b. 1814
Weston, Hervey Eliphaz, 1817-1882
Places:: Massachusetts > Suffolk (county) > Boston
Extent:: 1 leaf (4 p.) ; 10 x 7 3/4 in.
Permalink:: https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/wm118159n
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Place of origin:: Boston
Language:: English
Notes:: Holograph, signed.
Caroline Weston begins the letter with an explanation of the cost of a bonnet. It follows with family news, reports on the health of her mother and others, and the business affairs of Hervey E. Weston.
This letter is written on the blank pages of a circular letter advertising the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Fair during Christmas week, 1841. The letter is soliciting for funds, volunteers, and donations for the fair, in support of the anti-slavery cause. Caroline Weston is listed among the names sponsoring the circular letter.
Identifier:: 3132550
Call #:: Ms.A.9.2 v.3, p.88
Barcode:: 39999063102873
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