[Letter to] My dear Lucia & Emma
Contributors: Weston, Lucia, 1822-1861. recipient; Weston, Emma Forbes, b. 1825-, recipient
Series: Deborah Weston Correspondence (1830-1879)
Published: 1841
Place of publication: The Vestry of the Methodist Church, 4th Street, New Bedford, [Mass.]
Language: eng
Format: [manuscript]
Subjects: Correspondence; Women abolitionists; Antislavery movements; History
Notes: Holograph, signed with initials.

Deborah Weston has given up hope of having a school of her own in New Bedford. Mrs. Ben Congdon may want to have Deborah's "schoolroom for her daughter." If Deborah gives up [having a schoolroom] now, she hopes to lose only $5 out of her own pocket. She could have managed a school of forty pupils. Even if her school supports itself during the winter, "I cannot bear to be labouring for nothing as it were-- Money to spend is what I want." She tells about the troubles of acquaintances.