Foster, Abigail Kelley. Letter to Amy Kirby Post.

Title

Foster, Abigail Kelley. Letter to Amy Kirby Post.

Creator

Foster, Abigail Kelley

Contributor

Post, Amy Kirby, 1802-1889

Date

1844-07-16

Description

Handwritten letter from Abigail Kelley Foster to Amy Kirby Post. Foster writes to Post about recent developments in the abolitionist movement in the North East.

Subject

Post, Amy Kirby, b. 1802

Is Part Of

Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers

Rights

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Identifier

611

Location

Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester

Transcription

(Page 1)

                                             Durham N.H. July 16 1844
    My dear friend
                          having a private opportunity to send a line
I hasten to avail myself of the few moments before the
[bearer?] Dr. Pope shall leave. - I write now because
I wish to hear from you than because I have any
thing special to communicate myself- I saw you
had a Fair advertised for the 4 ^thJuly in Buffalo - This
looked encouraging - The women of Western N.Y. must
have the credit, at last of patient perseverance - I
hope you succeeded well and are going on steadily and
hopefully - Have you any agent now in the field
and what are your prospects? - The American Society
I have heard includes funding agents somewhere into
the [east?] this fall - Whether to weaken N.Y. I do
not know, but I presume to those places when they
shall decide help must needed - The Ex [Coun^it^ies?] of some
of the Western Societies have passed resolutions of pass
ing invitation to the American Society to send their agents
into their fields and they would do what they could
to sustain them - If your society wishes labor sustain-
ed on your field, I think some communication to
the Committee or through the Standard could be desira
ble I write this because I know what difficulty
you had last year to get an agent - the American
Society has such many numerous calls it is difficult to answer
many – The last I have of their intentions was, that
they intend to keep the agents, so far as they can, in

(Page 2)

N.E. during the Summer and the finish of Autumn -
send them to more [outward?], as they have calls from Ohio
Penn and Central N.Y. -
    I had hoped to Spend the Autumn in Western N.Y.
but N.H. seemed, on the whole, to be the place
for my efforts this Summer and so I am here- The
prospects in this state are very encouraging- & [cause?]
the [bitterest precautions?], abolition is getting [quietly?] into
form ^with^ by the most intelligent citizens - but now all
there needs is faithful taken to accuse the Humbling
and remove the prejudices from the minds of the ig
norant - The Herald is afloat, and has a subscrip-
tion bill now equal to its prominent supports-
[Rogers] is in better health and we are all in the finest
spirits
     Do write me Dover N.H. and tell me
of all your affairs- Whether your sewing circle [obliterated]
meets and you intend to have another Fair on 22^d [day?]
I fear they could meet here out in Central N.Y. the
winter on account of the main staff being on the
sick list, Francis and Paulina Wright – However, I
have not heard for several days ^weeks^ and they may
be improving-
               I suppose Liberty party is counting its ballet
and electioneering very luckily- very well, but it
pled- ‘Tis for us to regenerate the rubble heart
but constant preaching of the word and settling of
the seed and demagogues may suffer in office-
But I must not prolong my remarks - Love to
all                                                        Thine affectionately
                                                                                                  Abby Kelly

(Page 3)

P.S. I hope you will do all you can to increase
the circulation of the Standard as well as of the
Liberator and Herald - The Standard - what a noble
face of harmony and faithfulness it now presents
to us - We have been too slack in circulating
our papers          A. K.

(Page 4)

[Text aligned vertically along center of Page 4]

Amy Post
Rochester
N.Y.
Per Dr. Pope-

Annotations

Abigail Kelley Foster, an abolitionist and woman's rights leader, is writing from Durham, New Hampshire to fellow activist, Amy Post. The fair Foster refers to was an anti-slavery fundraiser. The American Anti-Slavery Society was founded in 1833 by abolitionists, William Lloyd Garrison and Arthur Tappan. The Standard, the Herald and the Liberator were abolitionist newspapers. Francis and Pauline Wright were abolitionists. The Liberty Party developed in the 1840s as an anti-slavery political party.

Tags

Abolitionism

Collection

D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers

Citation

Foster, Abigail Kelley, “Foster, Abigail Kelley. Letter to Amy Kirby Post.,” RBSCP Exhibits, accessed November 25, 2024, https://rclomeka2.lib.rochester.edu/items/show/2903.

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