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English: Page: p. 1

Call Number: Ms.A.9.2 v.9 n.1

Format: Autograph Letter Signed

Extent: 4 p., 9 3/4 x 7 3/4 in.

Creator: Weston, Deborah, 1814-1889; Osgood, Abigail.

Date of creation: 1837-01-01

Place of creation: New Bedford, MA

Recipient: Weston, Anne Warren, 1812-1890

BPL department: Rare Books

Transcription: New Bedford, Jan. 1st, 1837.

My dear Anne I wish you a happy new year. Abby Osgood

It is so long my dear Anne since I have written to you that I have almost forgotten where I left off. I believe though that I wrote last by Ann Maria Barley. Did you get my letter by Mr. Clark? I wish you would acknowledge the receipt of my letters for there is so much of all sorts and kinds in them, that I should be sorry to have any of them missing. Thursday 22. the day of the fair Mr. Holmes new church was dedicated, so of course we had no school. Dr. Hames preached the dedication sermon & a very good one it was. He said nothing about abolition in his sermon but Mr. Bent who dined with the ministers says that he avowed himself an abolitionist, disapproved of some of the abolition measures, but still has left on the minds of the people here the impression that he is a strong abolitionist. Full as strong I dare say as most here. We were in great danger at the church. There had been reports about town a week beforehand that the house was built in such a hurry that there was great fear of the floors giving out while

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