[Letter to] Dear Debora[h]
Contributors: Weston, Deborah, b.1814 recipient
Series: Caroline Weston Correspondence (1834-1874)
Published: 1842
Place of publication: Roxbury, [Mass.]
Language: eng
Format: [manuscript]
Subjects: Correspondence; Women abolitionists; American Anti-Slavery Society; Antislavery movements; History
Notes: Holograph, signed.

Caroline Weston was never so deprived of leisure, and finds consolation in trying "to smooth poor Henry [G. Chapman]'s life." Henry is not aware that he may have only a few more months to live. Caroline asks Deborah to burn this letter after reading it. The children get on very well. Little Henry Chapman is "a distressing child," but he goes to school. Caroline describes her daily schedule and domestic arrangements. She has begun a new quarter of her school, which will be as profitable as the last, though not as large. She refers to advice given about Deborah's school. She writes that "Poor Ann Terry [Phillips] is very poorly." The Phillipses are going out of town, probably to Nahant. John A. Collins has returned from Ohio and dined yesterday with Caroline Weston; she describes the conversation and his experiences at length. Ohio abolitionists "had suffered themselves to be made cats paws of by old Gam[aliel] Bailey to help new org[anization]." A resolution offered to become again auxiliary to the American Anti-Slavery Society was opposed by "secret foes & weak friends--an outcry against the introducation of the Eastern quarrel--women's rights etc. etc." However, Collins effected the formation of a new state society auxiliary to the American Anti-Slavery Society, including 200 persons and pledges to raise $4000 this year. James S. Gibbons will spend the fourth of July in Boston. "Mrs. [Lydia Maria] Child is righting up--I don't doubt will be intimate with Collins before long." Warren Weston was to sail from Havana.