[Letter to] Dear friend
Contributors: Weston, Anne Warren, 1812-1890, recipient
Series: Anne Warren Weston Correspondence (1834-1886)
Published: 1853
Place of publication: Boston, [Mass.]
Language: eng
Format: [manuscript]
Subjects: Correspondence; Secession; History; Antislavery movements; Women abolitionists
Notes: Holograph, signed.

Ellis Gray Loring opposes the plan for inviting George Thompson to come to the United States and work for the American Anti-Slavery Society as a lecturer. He doesn't think that Thompson should be invited here to preach Disunion and the overthrow of the government. He criticizes G. T.'s oratory. "In briefer terms, he did not (like Garrison and Phillips) hit the nail on the head..." Loring also said: "I feel happy and grateful for what you tell me about our beloved Lucia's health.

For Anne Warren Weston's reply to this letter, see Call No. Ms.A.9.2 v.27, p.64.