[Letter to] My Dear Cousin [manuscript]
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[Letter to] My Dear Cousin [manuscript]
- Publication date
- 1837
- Topics
- Weston, Caroline, 1808-1882, Cowing, Lucretia Ann, 1817-1850?, Grimké, Angelina Emily, 1805-1879, Grimké, Sarah Moore, 1792-1873, Governors, Antislavery movements, Women abolitionists
- Publisher
- Cherry Grove, [Maryland]
- Collection
- bplscas; bostonpubliclibrary; americana
- Contributor
- Boston Public Library
- Language
- English
Holograph, signed
Lucretia Ann Cowing tells about her life in the Governor's household: "The children are very good natured but very poor scholars, neither of them can read better than Lissey(?). The elder sister expects by her talk that I shall see that they study evenings and I must make them go to bed. The Governor is a fleshy and jolly old man being 63 years old, he says he will not be Gov. another year. The house is full of company the whole time and last Thursday we had the Gov. of Arkansas with a few others to dine." Lucretia A. Cowing tells of talk about a slave insurrection in Louisiana where one of the slaves was said to have a letter from Arthur Tappan, "urging him to the act." Lucretia A. Cowing will go with the Governor's family to Annapolis, where she expects to have a pleasant winter "as far as balls and parties can make it." Lucretia A. Cowing thinks there is no danger of her liking slavery. She describes the treatment and conditions of the slaves and repeats a story told by Miss V[eazey] of her punishing a slave by whipping. Lucretia A. Cowing has seen in a Philadelphia paper that "Miss Grimké, a talented Carolinian girl, was lecturing in Worcester." Lucretia A. Cowing expects next summer to have two more scholars, but does not know if she can make the Governor's two children "learn anything, they all tell me I must whip them."
Lucretia Ann Cowing tells about her life in the Governor's household: "The children are very good natured but very poor scholars, neither of them can read better than Lissey(?). The elder sister expects by her talk that I shall see that they study evenings and I must make them go to bed. The Governor is a fleshy and jolly old man being 63 years old, he says he will not be Gov. another year. The house is full of company the whole time and last Thursday we had the Gov. of Arkansas with a few others to dine." Lucretia A. Cowing tells of talk about a slave insurrection in Louisiana where one of the slaves was said to have a letter from Arthur Tappan, "urging him to the act." Lucretia A. Cowing will go with the Governor's family to Annapolis, where she expects to have a pleasant winter "as far as balls and parties can make it." Lucretia A. Cowing thinks there is no danger of her liking slavery. She describes the treatment and conditions of the slaves and repeats a story told by Miss V[eazey] of her punishing a slave by whipping. Lucretia A. Cowing has seen in a Philadelphia paper that "Miss Grimké, a talented Carolinian girl, was lecturing in Worcester." Lucretia A. Cowing expects next summer to have two more scholars, but does not know if she can make the Governor's two children "learn anything, they all tell me I must whip them."
- Addeddate
- 2011-02-01 14:39:42
- Associated-names
- Weston, Caroline, 1808-1882, recipient
- Call number
- 39999066779057
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- Identifier
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- Scanner
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- Full catalog record
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