[Incomplete letter to] My dear Anne
Contributors: Weston, Anne Warren, 1812-1890, recipient
Series: Deborah Weston Correspondence (1830-1879)
Published: 1836
Place of publication: New Bedford, [Mass.]
Language: eng
Format: [manuscript]
Subjects: Correspondence; Women abolitionists; Antislavery movements; History
Notes: Holograph.

Incomplete letter; the last part of the letter is missing. This letter was written over the course of four consecutive days.

Deborah Weston accounces that Wendell Phillips is to be here. Deborah is worried about Anne W. Weston's health. Deborah has 25 scholars. She describes the conspicuous politeness of a Mrs. Chase, whose young son had written her enthusiastically about the anti-slavery fair (in Boston). She remarks on the state of abolitionists here: "I have no pleasure in any of these brethren...I don't fellowship anything here." On Tuesday, Jan. 24, Deborah writes about Wendell Phillips's visit. "His lecture before the Lyceum this evening was considered very fine, slightly whiggy & rather conservative." In a conversation about "The Slave," Wendell Phillips said "that it was said at one time that [Richard] Hildreth wrote it." [The "Slave" referred to is the book, The Slave; or Memoirs of Archy Moore, by Richard Hildreth, published anonymously in 1836; a later edition was entitled only Memoirs of Archy Moore.] Deborah Weston said, "I like Wendell [Phillips]. I think Ann Terry has done very well." [Ann Terry was Ann Terry Greene, who married Wendell Phillips in 1837.]