[Letter to] My Dear Friend
Contributors: Weston, Caroline, 1808-1882, recipient
Series: Caroline Weston Correspondence (1834-1874)
Published: 1842
Place of publication: Dedham, [Mass.]
Language: eng
Format: [manuscript]
Number of pages: 10
Subjects: Correspondence; Brook Farm Phalanx (West Roxbury, Boston, Mass.); Non-resistant; Women abolitionists; Antislavery movements; History
Notes: Holograph, signed.

Edmund Quincy describes the appearance of members of the Brook Farm community at the anti-slavery picnic in Dedham, with "their brows bound with wreaths of oak-leaves---the men in blouses." He comments on the participation of [Charles W.] Denison and mentions an article by [James M. W.?] Yerrinton, which refers to D. as "exceedingly gross and rude." In reference to Edmund Quincy's own article in the Liberator, he explains that Yerrinton is "jealous of our reputation for good breeding as well as justice." He describes a visit from James Boyle, who had been rescued from the New Organization by John A. Collins. Edmund Quincy tells how he inadvertently brought J. B. to his house while they were still "playing whist like dragons!" William Lloyd Garrison must keep his hands off whist and backgamon. [Whist is a card game, usually for two pairs of players.] He describes a "come outer meeting" at which Warren Allen of Walpole spoke tediously, and Boyle spoke on the spiritual character of Christianity and scandalized three of the brethren. Edmund Quincy wonders what Anne W. Weston thinks about employing Boyle as a Massachusetts agent. The Non-Resistant has been in a state of suspended animation for three months. He thinks of turning it over to Adin Ballou and having it merge with the Practical Christian. The heresies of Edmund Quincy and Mrs. Maria Weston Chapman have alienated some readers. Edmund Quincy discusses the author Ben Jonson, noting his historical accuracy; he dislikes [Jane Austen's?] Emma. Nobody will exchange pulpits with Theodore Parker except Oliver Stearns.