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Holograph, signed.Richard Davis Webb thanks Anne Warren Weston for the portrait of Azeglio. Webb hesitates to discuss the controversial American question. A large majority of travelled Americans do their best "to inculcate views favorable to slavery." Since the war is evidently for the maintenance of the Union and not for the abolition of slavery, it is expecting too much to look for English sympathy. "John Bull should regard the probable termination of the Union with some complacency," since instead of one powerful opponent, there will be two nations. Richard D. Webb defends himself against the charge of narrowness by telling that Mrs. Chapman wrote she wished Harriet Martineau "was the editor of the Standard and that I was the European correspondent." Richard Davis Webb holds Anne Warren Weston's "dear sweet sister," Lucia Weston, in loving memory.

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