[Letter to] My dear Miss Weston
Contributors: Weston, Caroline, 1808-1882, recipient
Series: Caroline Weston Correspondence (1834-1874)
Published: 1845
Place of publication: Concord, [Mass.]
Language: eng
Format: [manuscript]
Subjects: Correspondence; Lyceums; Women abolitionists; History; Racism; Antislavery movements
Notes: Holograph, signed.

Mary Merrick Brooks writes: "You may say from me that Mr. E[merson] will not lecture before the Lyceum." Ralph Waldo Emerson argued that the Lyceum was "a popular thing designed for the benefit of all, particularly for the most ignorant." He would not know how to address an assembly from which this class was excluded, and "if any were excluded, it should be the cultivated classes." Mary M. Brooks hopes that Charles Sumner will also refuse to lecture. Sometimes Mary M. Brooks regrets being an abolitionist because of the knowledge gained of injustice and wrong. Mr. Emerson says that his friend Benjamin Rodman should have signed "that protest." The Misses Thoreau will go to the Boston fair; Mary M. Brooks would be glad if anyone could accomodate them for a few days.