LETTER: Autograph letter signed, to Mrs. Robinson, discussing the 1855 Cincinnati National Women's Rights Convention.
3 pp. 4 x 63/4 in.
Anne Warren Weston (1812-1890) was an abolitionist and women's rights activist along with her sister Maria Weston Chapman. A member of the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society, she also worked towards woman's rights and woman suffrage. Here, she discusses fundraising for the National Women's Rights Convention to be held in Cincinnati.
“Weymouth. July 26. 1855
Dear Mrs Robinson,
I received your letter of July 22 this morning & wish I could answer you in a more encouraging manner than it is in my power to do. Thinking Cincinnati a more favourable place for a fair than any other in Ohio, we sent the best of the articles that remained from our last sale there, & have only returned enough to furnish the womens Fairs in Mass. The last of those <2> will be held in Oct, & I will then send you every thing that remains be it much or little, & I hope some of the articles may be sufficiently good to serve a useful purpose. As the Cincinnati Fair will take place before yours, I should think too, it would be in Mrs Ernst 's power to assist you with what she has remaining.
I wish I could do more & better for you but you see how I am saturated, & that absolutely <3> this is all that is in my power.
All the Eastern friends do take a lively interest in the [illegible], & I trust the number of its subscribers may be increased.
With kind regards to Mr Robinson, believe me truly yrs
Anne W. Weston.”
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