[Letter to] My dear Caroline
Contributors: Weston, Caroline, 1808-1882, recipient
Series: Caroline Weston Correspondence (1834-1874)
Published: 1841
Place of publication: Hingham, [Mass.]
Language: eng
Format: [manuscript]
Subjects: Correspondence; Abolitionists; National anti-slavery standard; Women abolitionists; Antislavery movements; History
Notes: Holograph, signed.

A letter sent over two months ago in which Evelina A. S. Smith invited Caroline Weston to visit her for the fourth of July was just returned to Evelina A. S. Smith without reaching its intended destination. Evelina A. S. Smith had to miss the Norfolk County anti-slavery meeting at Weymouth because of preparations for a temperance tea party. Some of the resolutions discussed on that occasion were as important as any that come before abolitionists. She rejoices that in Hingham they have an anti-slavery pastor. Nevertheless, they have a strong pro-slavery church and pews for black people, and the building is closed to reformers. She admire the bold stance of the New Hampshire abolitionists. Evelina A. S. Smith hopes to have Theodore Parker lecture in Hingham, "... although the New Views do not find much favor with our staid, old fashioned population." Evelina A. S. Smith comments approvingly on the Standard and on the "correct portrait she [Mrs. Lydia Maria Child] has drawn in her last of Edward Everett." Evelina A. S. Smith comments on Edward Everett.