Keywords: From Anne Warren Weston to Caroline Weston; Monday, February 10, 1845 p1.jpg Page p 1 Call Number Ms A 9 2 v 4 n 28 Format Autograph Letter Extent 4 p 9 5/8 x 7 3/4 in Creator Weston Anne Warren 1812-1890 Date of creation 1845-02-10 inferred Place of creation Boston MA Recipient Weston Caroline 1808-1882; Weston Deborah 1814-1889 BPL department Rare Books Transcription 39 Summer St Dear Caroline Deborah Monday February 10 Lucia I were busy packing the things for Fitchburgh I sent off the package for N B I had letters from Weymouth At night Lucia Emma went with Mary to an Anti Capital Punishment Meeting at the State House Wendell spoke his best Tuesday 11 Wendell came for us at 9 we started with the great black box black trunk hair trunk valise full of book table stuff and one great white wooden box which Lucia would call the coffin I only wished it had screws to it We put our necks in jeopardy on our way to Charleston where the Depot is for the A roads or streets were in such a state that it seemed as tho ™ the carriage must upset but we arrived safely We had Clapp ™s company but luckily for us the weight of it came on Wendell He labored to make himself good with Wendell Defended his conduct on the Rogers case and so forth Dr Farnsworth was in our car part of the time He saw Mrs Child in N Y on his way home from Washington She thought that both herself husband had been abused by the members of the clique in the matter of the Standard I told the Dr that however wrong headed she might be we would give her the credit of not trying to illegible the paper which seemed the fashion now a days At Shirley we took the stage went 9 miles through the severest drifts I was most terribly sick At dark we reached Fitchburgh more dead than alive Mrs Snow a pretty little woman of 25 received us very kindly we went to our room There was a good fire everything very cozy Bro Snow ™s house was turned out of the windows all the elite of Worcester County being met there The Hubbardston people were the first on the ground Also there was James Buffum Mrs Dr Hoyt Miss Riley Cotton Mrs Everett her sister in short their names were legion We had a good tea then all but me went Flickr data on 2011-08-15 Camera Sinar AG Sinarback 54 FW Sinar m Tags dc identifier 08_07_000497 License CC BY 2 0 User Boston Public Library BPL Flickr http //flickr com/photos/24029425 N06/2868685778 From Anne Warren Weston to Caroline Weston; Monday February 10 1845 2008-09-02 16 10 31 creator Anne Warren Weston PD-old-100 User Flickr upload bot/upload 03 00 15 August 2011 UTC Faebot CC BY 2 0 Letter from Anne Warren Weston to Caroline Weston; Monday February 10 1845 Taken with Sinarback 54 |