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[Letter to] Dear Caroline [manuscript]   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Weston, Anne Warren, 1812-1890
Weston, Caroline, 1808-1882. recipient
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Title
[Letter to] Dear Caroline [manuscript]
Publisher
Groton, [Mass.]
Description
Holograph, signed
This letter is concerned with the visit of the Grimke sisters to Groton and their reception as public speakers. The writer tells of her calling on Mrs. Rugg (of the Groton women's society) to strengthen her. "I explained away all St. Paul's verses that are 'hard to be understood,' and charged Mrs. R. now to hold her ground." Mr. Phelps, the Groton minister having refused to open the meeting at which the Grimkes were to speak from the pulpit, Henry B. Stanton made the opening prayer. She gives the substance of Angelina Emily Grimke's address. While entertaining company, the writer received a letter from Deborah Weston with news that caused joy (at the birth of a child to Mrs. Maria Weston Chapman?). Anne describes a party given by "the Dr." (Amos Farnsworth) for the Grimkes, and her remonstrance at his omitting invitations to many good Abolitionists, whereupon he "agreed to making the party genuinely democratic." When it was over, "the Dr. thought that some of the aristocracy felt badly, not at being brought into collision with Abolitionists, but with mechanics." Stanton has left, "having I believe picked $100 from the Dr. Money, money, being the whole burden of his song." Anne describes a call by Mr. Davenport and his daughter Mary Ann, and the unhappiness of the latter, who has been forbidden to visit in Groton and to return to the We--? (as a pupil?) after vacation. Anne gives an account of a meeting held in a barn in Pepperell, where "the meeting house had been refused to the Grimkes." Angelina "spoke with great eloquence," and Sarah, following, spoke equally well. Anne enumerates other towns on the Grimkes' speaking schedule. The writer will stay while they do, for she feels that she is some use. "The Grimkes are the pleasantest of people in conversation." Anne calls attention to an article in the Religions Magazine "in which the testimony that insanity is hereditary in the Grimke family is quoted from a Southern correspondent."
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Subjects: Weston, Anne Warren, 1812-1890; Weston, Caroline 1808-1882; Davenport, Mary Ann; Antislavery movements; Women abolitionists
Language English
Publication date 1837
publication_date QS:P577,+1837-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
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IA Collections: bplscas; bostonpubliclibrary; americana
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lettertodearcaro00west17
Authority file  OCLC: 1048323629
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Internet Archive identifier: lettertodearcaro00west17
https://archive.org/download/lettertodearcaro00west17/lettertodearcaro00west17.pdf

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