Jacobs, Harriet Brent. Letter to Amy Kirby Post.

Title

Jacobs, Harriet Brent. Letter to Amy Kirby Post.

Creator

Jacobs, Harriet Brent

Contributor

Post, Amy Kirby, 1802-1889

Description

Handwritten letter from Harriet Brent Jacobs to Amy Kirby Post, n.d. Jacobs describes her future travel plans.

Subject

Post, Amy Kirby, b. 1802

Is Part Of

Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers

Rights

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Identifier

80

Location

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

Transcription

(Page 1)

I spent a week with
Mrs Bush in the city
was much disappoint
ed in not seeing Sar
ah I leave home to mor
row to go to New
Bedford on a visit
with Mrs Willis and
the Children I shall
be gone two week you
must write me there
if I should go to Boston
I want to try and see
Mr Garrison Philips and
Miss Weston I have a
project in my head and
when I think more
upon it I will tell
you I hope dear Amy
you will be able
to read this miserable

(Page 2)

scrawl but I am
so hurried the Chil
dren are calling to get
up and I dont want
to leave without send
ing you a line pray
burn it Mrs W
thought your letter
very Cleverly written
think dear Amy that
a visit to Stafford
House would spoil me
as Mrs Stowe thinks pet
ing [sic] is more than my race
can bear weell [sic] what
a pity we poor blacks
cant have the firmness
and stability of character
that you white people
have I hope that I shall
not have to recognise the
mote in my sister eye
while she wants to gaurd [sic]

[Text aligned vertically along right side of Page 2]

against the [illegible] beam in my darker Brother

[Text aligned upside down along top margin of Page 2]

God bless you write &

[Text aligned upside down along bottom of Page 1]

what you cant read the spirits

[Text aligned vertically along left margin of Page 1]

will heart full of love to all yours

[Text written upside down across top of Page 1]

Harriett Jacobs New Bedford
Mass

Annotations

Harriet Brent Jacobs, an author and former slave, is writing from New Bedford, Massachusetts to Amy Post, a close friend and benefactor. Abigail Bush was an abolitionist. Sarah was Post's sister. Cornelia Grinnell Willis and her husband had paid for Jacobs's freedom from slavery. William Lloyd Garrison was a radical abolitionist and the editor of the Liberator. Wendell Phillips and Maria Weston were an abolitionists. Jacobs refers to Stafford House in London- now called the Lancaster House. Harriet Beecher Stowe was an abolitionist and author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, who supported Jacobs's writing.

Tags

Abolitionism; Personal

Collection

D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers

Citation

Jacobs, Harriet Brent, “Jacobs, Harriet Brent. Letter to Amy Kirby Post.,” RBSCP Exhibits, accessed November 23, 2024, https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/items/show/2381.

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