[Letter to] My dear Debora[h]
Contributors: Weston, Deborah, b.1814 recipient
Series: Deborah Weston Correspondence (1830-1879)
Published: 1838
Place of publication: New Bedford, [Mass.]
Language: eng
Format: [manuscript]
Subjects: Correspondence; Women abolitionists; Antislavery movements; History
Notes: Holograph, signed.

In reference to a previous letter, Abby Osgood informs Deborah Weston that Mrs. Doubleday would like Deborah to defer her visit because of the poor health of different members of the household. Abby Osgood hopes Deborah Weston will come before she takes her final leave of the town, "as I don't believe anyone wants to see you as much as myself." Osgood tells about a temperance meeting, a concert, and about some of her pupils. Abby Osgood writes: "I do like the two schools better than one, and I am not troubled now by any of the young beauties. I have missed you this term, as no one but you can imagine, and I am impatient to get some knowledge of you, ..." She gives local news, including deaths and illnesses. Osgood says that "Brother Bent is as kind as a brother can be, ..."