[Letter to] Dear Aunt Mary
Contributors: Weston, Mary, 1786-1860, recipient
Series: Deborah Weston Correspondence (1830-1879)
Published: 1837
Place of publication: Boston, [Mass.]
Language: eng
Format: [manuscript]
Subjects: Correspondence; Women abolitionists; Free Soil Party (U.S.); Antislavery movements; History
Notes: Holograph, signed.

Deborah Weston rejoices in hearing by way of Anne Warren Weston "that the Grimkes had so successful a time, and that Oliver [Johnson?] acquitted himself so well." Deborah had an excellent time in Roxbury, where Caroline Weston "made her first debut on any stage, by reading the constitution of the [Roxbury?] society, after Angelina [Grimke] had finished." Deborah walked out (to Roxbury) and returned without being tired. Deborah attended Dr. Channing's church and heard Orville Dewey preach and read the peace notice. The Misses Grimke will address the meeting and participate in the discussion. Coming out of church, Deborah heard Zebedee Cook say that "this must be put a stop to." [Richard] Hildreth said that Zebedee told him "that this was a stratagem on the part of Mrs. Chapman to give an anti slavery notice under cover of a peace notice." Deborah Weston tells of the determination to have the "bona-fide anti-slavery notice" read next Sunday, and the attempt to have Samuel E. Sewell deliver it. A letter was received from the Liverpool Female Society, signed by Anne Cropper. Debora Weston states that her free labour principles prevent her from getting any calico gowns, so that she will have to get along with what she has.