[Letter to] Dear Deborah
Contributors: Weston, Deborah, b.1814 recipient
Series: Anne Warren Weston Correspondence (1834-1886)
Published: 1842
Place of publication: Chauncy Pl., [Boston]
Language: eng
Format: [manuscript]
Subjects: Correspondence; Women abolitionists; Antislavery movements; History
Notes: Holograph, signed.

Anne W. Weston attended Ralph Waldo Emerson's lecture. "It was on character & was quite interesting. The house was full two thirds. He attacked the Abolitionists by name in a very vile manner that is supposing he meant us, for all he said applied perfectly to Torrey Colver etc. The idea was that the Abolitionists were spiritual slaveholders 'incarnations of the laws of Georgia and Alabama.' He however bore something of a testimony as to Slavery for he spoke of it in company with 'fraud' & other acknowledged vices." Caroline Weston has a letter from Richard Hildreth.

Included is a typed transcript of paragraph 4, from Emerson's Essay on Character, that is mentioned Anne Warren Weston's letter.