[Letter to] My Dear Mother
Contributors: Weston, Ann Bates, 1785-1878. recipient
Series: Anne Warren Weston Correspondence (1834-1886)
Published: 1836
Place of publication: New Bedford, [Mass.]
Language: eng
Format: [manuscript]
Subjects: Correspondence; Women abolitionists; Antislavery movements; History
Notes: Holograph, signed.

Anne Warren Weston describes her journey by stage to New Bedford, including a conversation about abolition with Rev. Mr. Holmes and an old Quaker. She relates details of her arrival and first night in New Bedford. She gives her impression of Mr. Emerson as "remarkably soft & kind in his manner," tells of his saying "he was happy I was so animated in conversation, that his last Preceptress in school & out ... had not talked so much as I had done in the course of an evening." She describes her lodging and her Quaker hosts, Isaac and Charlotte Taber--"they are both purer than pure"--and tells of the remedies applied by Mrs. Taber in caring for the writer's bad cold. Though feeling the writer started school teaching Monday morning, has scholars, "all nice pretty looking girls, the average age about 14."

There is also a receipt dated 30 May 1836, to the New England Anti-Slavery Society for $45 in payment, "To use of Meeting House, corner of Salem & Bennet Street, 3 days, for Anti Slavery Convention." The receipt is signed by Orin[?] Moore, for the Salem Street Congregational Society.