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Letter from George Thompson, Edinburgh, [Scotland], to Richard Davis Webb, 1840 Aug[ust] 9

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Holograph, signed.Title devised by cataloger.Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) manuscript contains a black one penny postage stamp.George Thompson writes to Richard Davis Webb in regards to his trip to Glasgow. He will leave copies of the "Non-Resistant" and the "Declaration" with William Smeal. He can only send him one of each. He writes that they held the Annual meeting for the Glasgow Society and W.Dawes, J.Keep, and C.L. Remond were the American speakers. He writes that Birney, Stanton, and Scoble will speak at a later session. He saw in Garman's farewell letter that Elizabeth Pease [Nichol] "seems quite in love with W[illiam].L[loyd].G[arrison]." Lucretia Mott holds a meeting in a Unitarian Chapel. Hannah Backhouse is also there and speaking at the meeting.
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Keywords

  1. Abolitionists
  2. Antislavery Movements
  3. Birney, James Gillespie 1792 1857
  4. Christianity
  5. Correspondence
  6. England
  7. Garrison, William Lloyd 1805 1879
  8. Great Britain
  9. History
  10. Keep, John 1781 1870
  11. Meetings
  12. Mott, Lucretia 1793 1880
  13. Newspapers
  14. Nichol, Elizabeth Pease 1807 1897
  15. Publishers And Publishing
  16. Publishing
  17. Religious Aspects
  18. Remond, Charles Lenox 1810 1873
  19. Slaver
  20. Smeal, William 1793 1877
  21. Stanton, Elizabeth Cady 1815 1902
  22. Thompson, George 1804 1878
  23. United States
  24. Webb, Richard Davis 1805 1872

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