[Letter to] My dear Miss Weston
Contributors: Weston, Caroline, 1808-1882, recipient
Series: Caroline Weston Correspondence (1834-1874)
Published: 1850
Place of publication: Clevedon n'[ear] Bristol, [England]
Language: eng
Format: [manuscript]
Subjects: Correspondence; Women abolitionists; Antislavery movements; History
Notes: Holograph, signed.

John Bishop Estlin thanks Caroline Weston for her interesting letters, and refers to her account of Swiss scenes. He mentions a visit to the blind naturalist, [Francis] Huber, tells of letters written to Samuel May, Anne W. Weston, and others. He wrote to Frederick Douglass "expressing regret at his money having been hazarded in the 'North Star.' Miss Julia [Griffiths] wrote to me, but her, I did not answer." Estlin also had a little tilt with Joseph Barker. He discusses the attitude of Russell Carpenter. "I think he was anxious to get at the truth of the slavery question: that he adopted the best mode, I cannot say." He wonders what George Thompson will do in America. He questions the propriety of a British member of Parliament taking an active part in the politics of a foreign country. Estlin has read in the Liberator about fugitive slaves, and has been "rather aroused by the counsel of the 'Non-Resistants' who advise them to abstain from violence--unless they see no objection to it themselves!" He expects Frederick Douglass to "come forth in a conspicuous character." He comments on the political situation in France.