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Source Description
Holograph, signed.
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Document identity
localId
qz20tk863
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Letter from Mary Anne Estlin, Bristol, [England], to Maria Weston Chapman, October 18, 1847
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obj
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document
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1
Source metadata
id
qz20tk863
contentType
document
stage
normalized
title
Letter from Mary Anne Estlin, Bristol, [England], to Maria Weston Chapman, October 18, 1847
description
Holograph, signed.
date
["October 18, 1847"]
year
1847
rights
No known copyright restrictions.
rightsUri
No known restrictions on use.
reuseAllowed
no restrictions
language
English
identifierLocal
3133409
creators
Estlin, Mary Anne, 1820-1902
Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885
institution
Boston Public Library
collections
Anti-Slavery Collection
subjects
Anti-slavery fairs
Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century
Women abolitionists--Massachusetts--Boston--19th century--Correspondence
Antislavery movements--United States
Women abolitionists--United States
Estlin, Mary Anne, 1820-1902
Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895
Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885
Estlin, J. B. (John Bishop), 1785-1855
subjectsGeographic
Boston
Massachusetts
North and Central America
Suffolk (county)
United States
genreBasic
Correspondence
Manuscripts
typeOfResource
Text
country
United States
state
Massachusetts
county
Suffolk
city
Boston
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largeImageUrl
pageCount
1
source
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extent
1 leaf (4 p.)
hasTranscription
yes
Source extras
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sf268508b
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ht24xg10q
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42.35
schema:longitude
-71.05
notes
Holograph, signed.
Mary Anne Estlin writes for her father, John Bishop Estlin, to say that he could not produce a suitable essay for the Liberty Bell, "his habit having been always to write with some stated object." Additionally, his health is not good at present. She emphasizes her father's continued devotion to the anti-slavery cause. She refers especially to "the Unitarian reply to the clerical invitation which is in progress" and to his efforts for the publication of Frederick Douglass's Narrative in France. They thought it would be "impolitic to make ourselves prominent as A.S. advocates by applications for aid for the Bazaar at the very time that my Father is giving offence to many by representing his views of the duty of the ministers & others in relation to the question." They are therefore not soliciting, merely receiving voluntary contributions.
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Bristol, [England]
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qz20tk863
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document
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1
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0
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photo
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