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| Keywords: From Anne Warren Weston to Caroline Weston; Monday, August 7, 1837 p1.jpg Page p 1 Call Number Ms A 9 2 v 9 n 59 Format Autograph Letter Signed Extent 4 p 11 5/8 x 7 3/4 in Creator Weston Anne Warren 1812-1890 Date of creation 1837-08-07 Place of creation Groton MA Recipient Weston Caroline 1808-1882 Place of receipt Duxbury MA BPL department Rare Books Transcription Groton August 7th 1837 Monday morning Dear Caroline I designed writing to you several days since but have waited from day to day first to see the end of one play and then of another Sarah Angelina arrived on Wed night and we had a most interesting time talking over matters things reading letters from the brethren etc but I will not enlarge for I wrote all this to Maria as Debora will be with you by the time you get this she can tell you everything I wrote Thursday I kindly copied a letter for Angelina finished off a petticoat for Sarah and had much pleasant conversation with both I felt somewhat pleased when the hour for meeting arrived for the strife of tongues in Groton had been such and the hearts of so many seemed failing them for fear that I longed to have the matter over The day before the Grimke ™s came I went up to see Mrs Rigg for the purpose of strengthening her To this end I explained away all St Paul ™s verses that are hard to be understood and charged Mrs R now to hold on to her ground I told her these were the perilous times and now she must stand to her arms She behaved very boldly and indeed I think very well of her courage for probably no one in the female Society dared to take the ground of defending women ™s preaching save herself Mrs George Farley was too shocked to go Mr Phelps the Groton minister declined being in the pulpit with them or opening the meeting But as Stanton arrived in the course of Thursday he agreed to open the meeting Accordingly off we all started on Thursday evening in for the church The Grimkes Miss Grey Henry Stanton I driven by Sullivan the Dr ™s man; the Dr Mary followed in the chaise The house was thronged fuller than it ever had been at any abolition meeting known before They and Stanton walked directly into the pulpit and after a few minutes Stanton made one of the most excellent to the purpose prayers that I ever heard Angelina spoke on the topic that the South never has been ready or willing for Emancipation that circumstances have never been tending that way at all and that consequently the Abolitionists Cross-hatched writing The Grimkes are the pleasantest of people in conversation the Dr is perfectly charmed with them both He has had a pretty faithful exposition touching women ™s rights Mr Winslow ™s sermon has appeared in the Religion Magazine accompanied with another article in which the testimony that insanity is hereditary in the Grimke family is printed from a Southern correspondent This Angelina has to is going to send her article to Write tell me all the news Flickr data on 2011-08-14 Camera Sinar AG Sinarback 54 FW Sinar m Tags dc identifier 08_07_000087 License CC BY 2 0 User Boston Public Library BPL Flickr http //flickr com/photos/24029425 N06/2653156796 From Anne Warren Weston to Caroline Weston; Monday August 7 1837 2008-07-08 15 44 00 creator Anne Warren Weston PD-old-100 User Flickr upload bot/upload 08 22 14 August 2011 UTC Faebot CC BY 2 0 Letter from Anne Warren Weston to Caroline Weston; Monday August 7 1837 Taken with Sinarback 54 | ||||
