mshm185 Letter : Walnut Hills, Ohio, to Lewis Weld, 1834 August 13 Finding Aid Encoding funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Mount Holyoke College Archives and Special Collections

South Hadley, MA

Finding aid generated in MARC format from database, then encoded using Perl scripts and XSL stylesheet. 2004-04-06 Finding aid written in English. 2005-09-23 mshm185 converted from EAD 1.0 to 2002 by v1to02-5c.xsl (sy2003-10-15). Mount Holyoke College Archives and Special Collections Letter : Walnut Hills, Ohio, to Lewis Weld, 1834 August 13 Finding Aid MS 0037 Encoding funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Collection Overview Weld, Theodore Dwight 1803-1895 Letter : Walnut Hills, Ohio, to Lewis Weld 1834 August 13 MS 0037 1 item; 25 cm. Mount Holyoke College Archives and Special Collections

South Hadley, MA

Holograph letter and photocopy.Weld, Theodore Dwight, 1803-1895, reformer. Letter to his brother Lewis Weld about conditions at Lane Seminary in Aug. 1834, includes comments on sickness and abolitionist activities. English. Biographical Note

Theodore Dwight Weld was born in Hampton, Connecticut on November 23, 1803. An advocate and crusader for temperance, abolition and women's rights, he married Angelina Emily Grimke. He attended Phillips Andover Academy and the Oneida Institute before becoming a student at Lane Theological Seminary in 1834. While at Lane he led the student abolitionist revolt which resulted in more than fifty students leaving the school, as well as the dismissal of faculty member John A. Morgan.

Scope and Contents of the Collection

In this letter Weld writes to his brother Lewis Weld about a cholera epidemic sweeping the Lane Seminary. He describes the illness and death of several students, and notes the conversion of one minutes before his death. He also remarks on the upcoming meeting of the committee on trustees, a meeting at which the trustees decided against toleration of the abolitionists.

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Search Terms Weld, Theodore Dwight, 1803-1895. Lane Theological Seminary. Weld, Lewis, 1796-1853. Abolitionists - United States - Correspondence. Death. Cholera - United States. Conversion - Christianity. Antislavery movements - Ohio. Letters.