Report of the Twentieth National Anti-Slavery BazaarWeston, A. W.
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Report of the Twentieth National Anti-Slavery Bazaar
Weston, A. W.
Antislavery movements -- Massachusetts; Bazaars (Charities) -- Massachusetts -- Boston
We owe special acknowledgments to Rochester, Portsmouth, and Portland,
for the very neat and beautiful ladies’ work sent from those places.
It is very well suited to the Boston demand. To our Troy friend, we
return our best thanks for “needle-work which is needle-work,” and
which proved eminently profitable to the Bazaar. The very tasteful
articles, sent by Mrs. Howe, of Cambridge, sold at once. Among our
American objects of taste, we must instance the beautiful Lamp Shades,
made by Miss Francis, of Cambridge, and Miss Bradford, of Duxbury; the
ingenious and tasteful Leather Work, by Mrs. Bramhall and her friends,
and the magnificent Bronze Vases, presented by Dr. Dix. To Mr. John P.
Jewett, we are greatly obliged for his generous gift of many popular
Anti-Slavery works. A Herbarium, from Miss Wilbur, of Rochester, on
which great time and care had been expended, we regret to say, was
unsold; but we feel not the less obliged by the kindness that prompted
the gift. We find such things are in little demand, people preferring
to make their own collections.
We are indebted to Pictou, Nova Scotia, for a few very nice articles.
Mr. Edmund Jackson’s annual gift of twenty-five boxes of excellent
Soap, found, as usual, an immediate sale, as did much of the
Britannia, Glass and Japaned Ware, so generously presented by Messrs.
Morey & Ober, P. F. Slane, Kanes & Johnson, E. N. Cate, and J. C.
Wyman, to whom we would beg leave to return our very sincere thanks.
We would also proffer them to Messrs. F. A. Sumner & Co., for their
loan of china, and to the friends who so liberally supplied the
refreshment table. The Committee feel, likewise, that they are again
indebted for such kindness and personal assistance as materially
lightened the burden of their labors, to Mr. Daniel T. Curtis.
They are also very sensible of the courtesy of the gentlemen of the
Horticultural Society’s Committee. It is as a simple act of justice,
that we would refer to the services Rev. Samuel May, General Agent of
the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society. Not ourselves, only, but the
whole American Society, are his debtors. It would have been with
extreme difficulty that the Bazaars of the last two or three years
could have been held at all, had it not been for the most generous
devotion of time and strength on his part.
We feel that we have given a very imperfect record of the gifts and
labor which have secured to the Bazaar so gratifying a measure of
success; but, in view of the difficulty of recalling such a
multiplicity of details, we know that our omissions will be pardoned.
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