File:From Anne Warren Weston to Deborah Weston; Monday, February 13, 1837 p1.jpg

Call Number: Ms.A.9.2 v.9 n.14

Format: Autograph Letter Signed

Extent: 4 p., 9 7/8 x 7 7/8 in.

Creator: Weston, Anne Warren, 1812-1890

Date of creation: 1837-02-13

Place of creation: Boston, MA

Recipient: Weston, Deborah, 1814-1889

Place of receipt: New Bedford, MA

BPL department: Rare Books

Transcription:

Boston. Feb. 13. 1837 Monday Morning

Dear Debora,

Before I say any thing else, lest I should forget, do you remember to bring to Boston when you come, “Marie.” Maria wants it to lend to Mrs. Child who thinks of translating it for the benefit of the cause. I believe I have not written to you since the 31st of Jan. By a reference to my journal I can give you minutes of all that has occurred since. Feb. 1. Hildreth passed the evening here. He alluded to “the Slave” & tried to speak naturally, but he could not; he is not a person of much consistence after all. I said nothing hardly about it, for as I mean to hold a definite conversation about it with him I would not subject myself to the awkwardness of talking company talk about it. He said he had come to Boston for [?]. 2d. Aunt Mary & I went over to Cambridge and in our way over stopped at the Marks. Mrs. M. had a bad cold but had procured good help & seemed to be getting on pretty well. That afternoon Aunt Mary was taken so ill that I could not return to Boston the next morning as I had intended. All the next day she hardly sat up at all. But on the 4th Saturday she was well enough for me to leave her. Her complaint seemed to be a sudden cold. Sat. afternoon a Board meeting of our Society was held, & we concluded to raise $1,000 & support Amos A. Phelps as an agent in Boston. Miss Parker had ascertained that we could probably get him for the “Friend of Man” is to be given up & [Goodell] is to take Phelps’ place. We could probably have had either Phelps or Stanton, but for obvious reason I preferred the former. Hildreth spent the evening here, & to my great sorrow, I discovered that he was growing as whiggy as possible. I upbraided him with it & he seemed a little embarrassed & said “Why you know, I always belonged to the Whig party.” I fear that he has come to Boston to act for

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