[Letter to] My dear friend, Anne W. Weston
Contributors: Weston, Anne Warren, 1812-1890, recipient
Series: Anne Warren Weston Correspondence (1834-1886)
Published: 1865
Place of publication: Dublin, [Ireland]
Language: eng
Format: [manuscript]
Subjects: Correspondence; Women abolitionists; Antislavery movements; History
Notes: Holograph, signed.

Richard Davis Webb gratefully received a newspaper sent to him by Anne Warren Weston. Webb discourses on the British interest in the Civil War. The membership of nearly all public meetings has been ten to one in favor of the North. Pro-southern meetings were generally held behind closed doors. Webb expects that in a few years the English people will be unwilling to admit "that so large a proportion of the aristocracy & ruling classes sympathized with the South." He regrets the split in the anti-slavery ranks. He believes that the efforts of abolitionists should not be relaxed and that the withdrawal of "so many of the ablest veterans of the cause" will give the impression that there is "nothing more to fight for." William Lloyd Garrison and Wendell Phillips should not appear as opponents. Webb has heard from Mary Anne Estlin about the travels of the Laugel family. Webb refers to Deborah Weston's visit to Ireland and her return to Durdham Downs. Richard Davis Webb encloses a poem by his daughter, Deborah Webb, suggesting the "perplexity into which she was thrown by her mother's death."