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Correspondence, Women abolitionists, Town & Country Club, Antislavery movements, History, Anti-slavery fairsPeople
Emma Forbes Weston (b. 1825-), Wendell Phillips (1811-1884), Caroline Weston (1808-1882), Anne Warren Weston (1812-1890), Amos Bronson Alcott (1799-1888), Washington Goode (d. 1849), Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), Eunice Messenger Collins, Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1823-1911)Places
United States, Boston, MassachusettsTimes
19th centuryShowing 1 featured edition. View all 1 editions?
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Anne Warren Weston found Ann Phillips "raving with indignation" at an execution that Wendell Phillips labored to prevent. It was the case of a black man named Goode. "We carried round a petition in Weymouth & got 400 names...but that wretched [Governor] Briggs refused" to commute the sentence. Anne gives a description of her sisters' bonnets. People are looking at Emma (who is to go to France) "as if she had been elected to some wondrous dignity." She tells of the "Town & Country Club," which was "a scheme got up by [Ralph] Waldo Emerson to give Mr. [Amos Bronson] Alcott a living." It has about 90 members, among them Longfellow, Lowell, Garrison, and Parker. "There has been a terrible fight whether women should be admitted." (Thomas) Wentworth Higginson was to propose Mrs. Follen, but someone has proposed Maria (W. Chapman). Eunice (Mrs. John A.) Collins died of consumption.
See Call No. Ms.A.9.2 v.24, p.122B, for the accompanying envelope.
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